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We Shopped, He Dropped: The Unnecessary Killing of a Wal-Mart Employee

by Emily Wierenga | Dec 3, 2013 | black friday, christians, commercialism, employee, faith, materialism, mob, shopping, trampled, walmart

I was driving down Baseline on Sunday, in Sherwood Park, Alberta, passing a thick flock of stores, duplo block structures, big box stores with their Black Weekend sales. And I was crying, thinking about the Wal-Mart worker.The one who got trampled in Long Island, NY,...

black friday: when you feel like Jesus has abandoned you

by Emily Wierenga | Nov 23, 2012 | abandonment, black friday, cross, crucifixion, doubt, God, Jesus, love, prayer

kasher, when he was 3 months old, in a corn field.black friday happened last week for me. it happened on the bed in the office, on the patchwork quilt that my friend stitched for me. it happened in the rumpled form of a writer who was twisted up and crying out to a...

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