When Hope Hurts: A Queer Advent Reflection

Jamie Arpin-Ricci
3 min readDec 17, 2021
(title by Jamie Arpin-Ricci)

“‘For a while’ is a phrase whose length can’t be measured.
At least by the person who’s waiting.” -Haruki Murakami

With the Advent season upon us, there is no shortage of reflections on the necessity and beauty of waiting. And for good reason, as many of them have much wisdom. However, in recent years, as I…

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Jamie Arpin-Ricci

Jamie Arpin-Ricci is a bisexual author & activist with more than 25 years experience living at the intersection of faith, sexuality, and justice.