First Fridays by BLE and MPI is the place to be on the first Friday of the month.
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Join us at the first Friday today January 9, 2026 at 11:30 AM. Free parking free food free resources. Today we will be creating visions and vision boards for the future. You may register at www.blesuites.com and walk-ins are allowed. See you at the event.
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Dr. Kari Bryant’s dress serves as a cultural Rorschach test—a mirror that reveals as much about the observer as it does about the wearer. Critics dismiss it as spectacle: worldly, attention-hungry, and unapologetically grandstanding. Admirers see something entirely different—liberation, self-possession, and feminine sovereignty on full display. These interpretations can coexist, and that tension is precisely what unsettles so many.
What is far less debatable is what the dress categorically rejects: obedience, humility, and modesty. It does not seek approval. It does not temper itself for fragile sensibilities. It stands as a refusal to shrink.
The remaining question, then, is not what the dress signifies—but whether this posture aligns with the responsibilities and role-modeling expectations of a church’s First Lady.
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