America, he is not worth this. This unrelenting chaos that we find ourselves emotionally drowning in: the manufactured emergencies, fabricated culture wars, and conjured crises that hound us from the

As I watched scores of panic-stricken fathers in Iran, bloodying their hands, desperately tearing through the hulking rubble entombing their children, I grieved deeply. I mourned over their valiant but

Friends, this is a HUGE day for me! I have the stratospheric joy of announcing the June 23rd arrival of my first-ever children’s book, HERE and NOW and SMALL and

Hey, US Men’s Hockey Team, you may not realize this, but you just won the gold medal. Not just in ice hockey, but in misogyny. Watching you all hunched around

Dear Ms Bondi, I’m writing to you as an American citizen, a former pastor, and the father of a daughter.  I spent today, as much of the nation, watching you

Sometimes you can forget the point of it all. It’s easy when the horrors have become commonplace to become so beaten down and disheartened by the fight that you can

Friends, if you’ve gotten used to reading my writing here, you may not know that I’ve moved the lion’s share of my work to Substack and my daily newsletter, The

Donald Trump shared an unspeakably racist meme about President Obama and Michelle Obama on social media. With our nation stretched to its breaking point by a litany of Constitutional crises

I can understand why Conservative men support a serial predator like Donald Trump. He embodies the fragile masculinity that so many are afflicted with. He validates their misogyny, giving voice

I’m not sure Americans really understand what we’re facing right now. I do. I’ve spent most of the last thirty years as a local church pastor, much of that in

Alex Pretti was murdered by ICE, in cold blood, without cause, and with giddy joy from his assassins. For simply bearing witness to a neighbor’s abuse, for being the kind

Watching Vice President JD Vance, a professed Christian, stand before our nation this week and repeatedly lie about the Trump Administration’s illegal and immoral assaults on our America and its

What Would Jesus Do? Conservative Christians love to ask this question. They adorn their Sunday school rooms with it. They wrap it around their wrists. They saturate their social media accounts with

It’s easy to oversimplify this life; to abandon nuance in favor of a simple, binary choice that leaves no room for complexity. At times, we’re all guilty of such reductionism

Boy, do I feel like an idiot. I honestly thought January 6th, 2021, was going to be a catalytic moment for our nation. Five years ago, watching a vicious, snarling

Growing up in the Church, I believed in Hell. In the story I inherited, there was a place where monstrous people would spend an excruciating eternal afterlife suffering for the

Best-selling author and self-help guru Mel Robbins recently posted a New York Times Op-Ed called Life Is Too Short to Fight With Your Family leading into the Thanksgiving weekend. In the piece,

This will all be over soon, America. The sundowning of the MAGA movement is upon us. The signs are everywhere. As much as History can be an albatross in moments

In case you haven’t been following closely lately, we’re currently in the “let’s attack a decorated war veteran and retired astronaut” portion of the collapse of Republican morality. And in

This week, I finally reached my limit for bad news. A few days ago, something showed up on my timeline (I can’t even remember exactly what, to be honest), and

What a difference a couple of millennia make. There’s a story about Jesus that all four New Testament Gospel writers record in their accounts of his life. He’s been teaching

Well, in case you weren’t keeping track, we’re in the “Nazis are fine” portion of Republican Americans’ moral collapse. Politico recently broke the story of the discovery of seven months’ worth

“And they’ll know we are Christians by our love.” – Christian hymn As a longtime progressive pastor, I’ve come to understand that there are few people as unloving as Conservative

At first glance, it’s easy to focus on the Trump Administration’s attacks on historically marginalized minority communities: the incessant and increasingly violent war it is now raging on immigrants, on