February is the official month of celebrating love. The stores are filled with red boxes of chocolate, which still sit there – discounted – for a couple of weeks after Valentine’s Day. Another remnant from Valentine’s week is sitting in my room – the Love & Sex edition of Hamilton’s VIEW magazine. As the month […]
Answering a Prayer: Will You Be My Valentine?
Love. The word is scattered across posters, billboards, and store fronts this time of year. The story of St. Valentine is my inspiration as I think about slavery and exploitation: In 270 A.D., marriage had been outlawed by the emperor of Rome. It was thought to create weak and unreliable soldiers because they would be […]