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Vincent Lachina

Rev. Vincent Lachina has served as Planned Parenthood Regional Chaplain for the last 13 years, providing support to patients and community members in Washington, Alaska, Idaho and Hawaii. Additionally, Lachina works to create an active network of progressive congregations in the Northwest who support reproductive justice for women. He is an adjunct member of Planned Parenthood's Clergy Advocacy Board, which provides guidance and advocacy on reproductive health and justice issues nationwide, and has served on the Board of Directors of the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project.
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Hidden biases are all around us

Though I currently live in the Pacific Northwest, it is often difficult for me to disconnect myself from my early days spent in the Deep South.
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(Politically) Looking Ahead to 2015 with Anxiety

Perhaps the most surprising reality for me is that 92 percent of our new congress identifies as “Christian.” In some ways, that should give us citizens a feeling of comfort, but in truth, it can be a cause for anxiety in itself.
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Should clergy be held to higher standards?

When Maryland’s first female Episcopal bishop, the Rev. Heather Cook, was arrested recently and charged with multiple offenses, including manslaughter and intoxication, it was both shocking and sad.
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Religion from a Negative Perspective

There are few things sadder to a minister than having your child tell you that “church is irrelevant to me.” That was the message my son gave on his eighteenth birthday when he informed me that he would not go back to church again.
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Re-souled

Alone she sat, Old, wrinkled, bent.
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What Hurts One, Hurts Us All

Though my own personal beliefs about how to live not only as a Christian, but also as an ordained minister have often been at odds with Pastor Mark Driscoll, I find that I now vacillate between a deep sense of sadness and sincere embarrassment.
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About a child

Amid the war, the strife, the hate, Beyond the death and suffering,
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