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

As news of his shooting broke, the Jesus-washing of Charlie Kirk’s life by Conservative Christians began almost immediately. My social media feed quickly flooded with urgent pleas of protection made

Charlie Kirk’s murder was a brutal, reprehensible, vile act. It is the kind of despicable disregard for life that all decent human beings should (and largely did) condemn. From the

It feels like a good portion of this nation is on death watch right now. My social media feed is filled with photos gleefully documenting the markers of his physical

Dear Republicans, There’s been another mass shooting today in America. Sadly, this sentence is evergreen at this point, with only the geography and the death toll changing. And before you

Trump supporters, are you seeing this? He’s lying to you. This is all a sham, a mirage, an elaborate piece of performance art, all of it. When you side with

Whew, this is a tough one to write, but I’ll try to get it out if you’ll bear with me. For the past couple of months, I’ve been doing some

Dear Republican Voters, Trump Supporters, White Evangelicals, and MAGA Faithful, I’d like to ask you some questions, and I’d like to hear your honest responses… If the President is a

How in the hell did we get here? Really. I’m not asking how America elected a convicted felon, or how nearly every Republican in Congress steamrolled one of the most

F*ck the fireworks and flip the flags. For actual patriotic Americans, this isn’t a party, it’s a funeral. There is nothing to celebrate here. We shouldn’t be singing right now;

I can remember when we had a human president. It was only a few months ago, but it may have been a lifetime. Watching President Biden at the memorial service

My country is hurting. We, the People, are hurting. The hurt shows up in so many ways, ways that surprise and distract and confuse us, ways that don’t always look like

For a brief moment, watching Donald Trump and Elon Musk in a petty, posturing social media catfight was amusing; a welcome bit of schadenfreude seeing the unholy marriage of two

To all those who imagine themselves to be friends, allies, and advocates of the LGBTQ community, As we enter PRIDE month, I think it’s important to say something to all

Photo by Travis Long tlong@newsobserver.com Sometimes you don’t notice attrition when it happens. When you lose elemental parts of you, they don’t all depart at once, and since you’re inside yourself

Dear Friend, Sometimes I wonder if you’re seeing everything I’m seeing, if you still watch the news or hop on social media anymore. Perhaps you checked out somewhere along the

Picture someone you love who died serving this nation, or even someone you’ve never met. Imagine them wherever they took their final breath on this planet: jumping into churning, frozen

America is tragically deceptive right now. You can go out today in your local community, and everything looks perfectly normal: the sun is shining, pickleball courts are packed, people are

The Catholic Church chose Robert Prevost as its new pope in the wake of the recent passing of Pope Francis. And let’s just say, there was no joy in MAGAville

The volume of the monsters is unavoidable right now. Their vitriol is everywhere: pouring into comment sections, flooding school board meetings, arriving unannounced in neighborhood gatherings, and littering the White

As a former pastor of over two decades, I could seriously throw up right now. The Trump Administration wrongly deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a father of four, to a brutal

My family and I had barely been in our Lisbon Uber for ninety seconds when our gregarious driver Nuno, recognizing our accents asked, “So… are you pro-Trump or anti-Trump?” For

Dear GOD, I’m not sure where to start here. Originally, I was going to try easing into this with some small talk, but then I realized with You being GOD

Dear President Zelenskyy, As it is likely that our paths will never cross in person, I could not let this day go by without trying to reach you here. I