Sunday Reflections

March 9, 2025 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Sunday Reflections: Contemplating the DEI in the Imago Dei

In this week's Sunday Reflections, teen librarian Karen Jensen reflects on how the concept of DEI relates to her personal and professional life and the concept of the Imago Dei

February 2, 2025 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Sunday Reflections: When the Information Just Disappears

Teen librarian Karen Jensen shares the disturbing erasure of government websites

March 5, 2023 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Sunday Reflections: My Child Deserves Representation in the Library

Teen librarian and parent Karen Jensen talks about LGBTQ representation in our libraries

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Sunday Reflections: What Do We Mean Both Sides of the Holocaust?

July 31, 2022 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Teen librarian Karen Jensen talks about her recent visits to the Holocaust museum and reading The Assignment with her youngest teen

Sunday Reflections: On being a Librarian and a Christian parent to an LGBTQ kid with a uterus in 2022

June 26, 2022 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Teen librarian Karen Jensen talks about parenting an LGBTQ teen in this time of book bans

Sunday Reflections: Endings and Beginnings

August 8, 2021 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Teen librarian Karen Jensen reflects on the ending of high school and the beginning of college as a mother during a deadly global pandemic

Sunday Reflections: In Which TLT Turns 10 and I Reflect

July 11, 2021 by Karen Jensen, MLS

TLT creator Karen Jensen looks back and looks forward as Teen Librarian Toolbox kicks of a week of celebration in honor of their 10 year birthday!

Sunday Reflections: We Promised Them Democracy

November 22, 2020 by Karen Jensen, MLS

What impact will charges of rampant corruption and voter fraud have on our most vulnerable youth moving forward?

Sunday Reflections: They’re Sacrificing Our Poorest Children, Same as it Ever Was

July 12, 2020 by Karen Jensen, MLS

What - or who - are we sacrificing if we re-open our school buildings in the fall during a pandemic?

Sunday Reflections: Reflecting on My Reflections. On a Sunday, of course.

February 23, 2020 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Reflecting on 9 years of Sunday Reflections. On a Sunday, of course.

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