teanna sunberg

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  • When you sell people

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    When you sell people, you get a bargain. The maintenance is relatively cheap – a human can live and function with remarkably small amounts of cheap food. The product is easily controlled, especially if you own something of theirs. Burning their baby is highly effective, if you let them hear the pitiful screams.  Consider buying as…

  • it is raining babies

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    She was probably around fifteen the first time I met her at Blessings Church in Bucharest. You know, one of those teens that cause us good church folk to lower our eyes and not stare: a lot of piercings, questionable jewelry choices, black t-shirt, big make-up. One of those lost teens from marginalized homes who suck up…

  • real life

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    The highest commodity on the human market today is a pregnant woman.

  • get a ticket

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    I have learned a million lessons on the metro in my lifetime. It was where I learned to eat an apple including the core and peel a banana – use the stem as a handle.

  • handprint

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    As we discussed the blindness of our prejudices, exploitation, and our Jesus-led responses, one of my students shared this clip called Handprint My heart responded. JESUS, would you guide my choices today and help me to live my life as a blessing. Help me with my ignorance. Forgive me for my apathy. May it be…

  • live missionING!

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      Live missionING! Doesn’t make sense: ‘live missionING’.  You’ve created a new word. Don’t mess with the language. Leave it alone. If you aren’t Shakespeare, don’t fix it. Mission is a place. Mission is a destination. Mission is the object of a preposition: on a mission to or for _____, but mission is not an -ing on…

  • feet

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    Soon. Too soon. These feet will carry them far away from the hands that caught them when their feet were learning to walk. Seniors. Senior girls. Getting ready to face the world. What do they need to know? What have we forgotten to instill in them? Teach them? How do we celebrate these last months…

  • stupid literature

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    I didn’t want to do it, but I watched it because my 13-year old said that I must. I made the mistake of taking her to Auschwitz. Then, she wanted to watch The Boy in Striped Pyjamas.

  • just an old conference

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    They are not miracle workers. They work with prostituted women. They live into the lives of Roma. They pastor families. They carve out Jesus moments in cultures that are post-Christian, post-modern, post-Communist. They move into communities that have all but forgotten that hope still smiles on people like them.  And they blow. They blow the breath…

  • a day in the life of …

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    ‘What in the world do missionaries do?’ A difficult question to answer.   To some, missionary is a four-letter word. For others, it is one gigantic mystery: one of those words that we know by Webster definition but beyond that, we have no real context for understanding. Sure, if we are the church-going type, we know…