![something to remember [#humantrafficking]](https://b826465.smushcdn.com/826465/wp-content/uploads/redemption.jpg?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1)
by Elora Ramirez | Oct 27, 2011 | activist faith
[serialposts]When I started writing my novel back in 2009, I didn’t set out to write about human trafficking. I just wanted to tell the story of a girl we mentored, but I wasn’t surprised when my characters took on a life of their own and what came of...
![come alive: an excerpt [@eloranicole on #humantrafficking]](https://b826465.smushcdn.com/826465/wp-content/uploads/sunrise.jpg?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1)
by Elora Ramirez | Oct 25, 2011 | activist faith, book reviews
[serialposts]from Elora Ramirez’ debut novel Come Alive, due out this Winter through Rhizome Publishing – Sunrises make me come alive. I’m usually up far before the sun makes an appearance anyway, so when the first light of the day creeps its way across...
![[fatherless generation] chapter 14: redeeming the story](https://b826465.smushcdn.com/826465/wp-content/uploads/composition-notebook.jpg?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1)
by Elora Ramirez | Apr 20, 2011 | book reviews, engaged in culture
[serialposts] If our God is the Father to the fatherless, how can we, who are called to be imitators of him, be any less? As I read Redeeming the Story, I couldn’t help but think of where my husband and I were seven months ago and where we’re at now....
![[fatherless generation] chapter 6: running to stand still](https://b826465.smushcdn.com/826465/wp-content/uploads/banksy_always_hope-e1301624757897.jpg?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1)
by Elora Ramirez | Apr 1, 2011 | book reviews, engaged in culture
[serialposts] The fatherless generation embraces pain to escape the anguish of a missing father. They believe and live the lies of rejection until the lie becomes the truth. Like Legion, they isolate themselves to escape the pain through drugs or self-injury –...
