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Bona Fides

A collection of 9 posts

All of Me or None of Me: Why I Left Sojourners

All of Me or None of Me: Why I Left Sojourners

For fifteen years, Sojourners magazine used my writing to build their credibility on military issues. When I asked them to remove my unpaid work in January 2025, they refused. What their COO said during our negotiation — which I recorded — exposed everything wrong with how progressive institutions treat veteran voices. What

Why I'm Archiving My Christian Century Content

Why I'm Archiving My Christian Century Content

Between 2012 and 2022, I published content with The Christian Century—four blog posts early in my writing career, and six months of unpaid work in 2021-2022 that was ultimately rejected. In December 2025, I requested that any unpaid content be removed from their website. This essay explains why,

What HillVets Taught Me About How Veteran Nonprofits Fail Veterans

What HillVets Taught Me About How Veteran Nonprofits Fail Veterans

I joined HillVets LEAD in September 2019 as a Cohort 3 protege in the Communications and Media pipeline. I had a newborn and three years of military civil rights advocacy behind me. I thought HillVets was the room I'd been trying to get into. I was right about

"Thank you again"

"Thank you again"

Not My Gospel 4: "And Friends"

Not My Gospel 4: "And Friends"

May God Have Mercy on the House of Ignatius: A Soldier's Lament

May God Have Mercy on the House of Ignatius: A Soldier's Lament

Not My Gospel 3: Production on the Fast Track

Not My Gospel 3: Production on the Fast Track

Not My Gospel 2: Publishing My Perspective

Not My Gospel 2: Publishing My Perspective

Not My Gospel 1: The First Cut is the Deepest

Not My Gospel 1: The First Cut is the Deepest