Dear Awkward, I work at a large Fortune 500 company. Recently one of my coworkers, Carlos, was promoted and now leads a small team. Since the promotion, Carlos has been trying to assert his new authority—even over people, like me, who don’t work for him. For example, in meetings with senior executives, he mansplained the …
Dear Awkward: My Pastor and Air Yeezys
Dear Awkward, What do you think if the Instagram account @preachersnsneakers? How do you see wealth, spending, and responsibility in church and or in the kingdom? Is there a place for judgement? Mara Dear Mara, After I received your question, I decided to re-take the Slavery Footprint survey, and discovered that I, personally, employ 52 …
When Empathy Led Me Astray: For The Mudroom
In my premarital class, our pastor had everyone take a Myers-Briggs assessment. When my husband and I both got our results, we smiled at each other: we were just one letter apart. He was an INTP (introvert, intuition, thinking, perceiving), and I was an INFP (feeling). It made sense. Similar as our temperaments are, there’s a …