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Caris Adel

To all the church leaders I knew before…

On reading books and discovering powerful women.

9 min readDec 18, 2018

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To all the church leaders I knew before…

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Caris Adel

Ban Confederate Imagery in Schools

There was a meeting of the school board tonight that I was suddenly unable to attend, where I was going to read this statement; from what I…

3 min readAug 23, 2018

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Ban Confederate Imagery in Schools

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Caris Adel

Daring To Be A Woman: Examining Brio Magazine (Series)

Women are catching a disease that makes them invisible. They don’t die………they just fade away to translucency. This is the plot of one of…

5 min readMay 9, 2018

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Daring To Be A Woman: Examining Brio Magazine (Series)

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Caris Adel

An Empowered Love: Examining Brio Magazine (Series)

Of course, women so empowered are dangerous. — Audre Lorde

9 min readMay 9, 2018

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An Empowered Love: Examining Brio Magazine (Series)

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Caris Adel

but the woman is the glory

What would you die for? They told me this, the christians. They said to picture it, prepare for it, because this is the test of your…

3 min readApr 22, 2018

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but the woman is the glory

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Caris Adel

The Worth of a Girl: Examining Brio Magazine (Series)

Make a merry gathering/On the bank/Where thousands perished/For brave hurt words/They said.

9 min readFeb 5, 2018

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The Worth of a Girl: Examining Brio Magazine (Series)

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Caris Adel

Charlottesville

An Experience in 5 Parts

11 min readAug 18, 2017

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Charlottesville

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Caris Adel

Witness to Suffering

We romanticize suffering because we know the weight of looking at it honestly will crush us. It’s why we have best-selling books about the…

6 min readFeb 23, 2017

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Witness to Suffering

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Caris Adel

Invisibility of Life

“Without light I am not only invisible, but formless as well; and to be unaware of one’s form is to live a death.” — Ralph Ellison…

4 min readFeb 18, 2017

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Invisibility of Life

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Caris Adel

We Need Bold and Angry Christians

They want us to be quiet. Peaceful. Gentle. They want us to be Ruth in all things. Where you go, I will go, and your god will be my god…

5 min readJan 28, 2017

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We Need Bold and Angry Christians

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Caris Adel

Caris Adel

american & religious studies. liberal episcopalian. studies whiteness in evangelical pop culture. older than I look. infj. 5w4. UVA BA ‘20/MA ‘22

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