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

I confess that I’m a little lost presently. I’ve become a restless, reluctant nomad moving tentatively through familiar places with a lingering emotional dissonance. I am a lifelong American who

I really hate this. I mean, I really didn’t want to be here, to be feeling this, to be writing it, to be saying it. I’ve always believed in meeting people where

Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde’s compassionate sermon at the National Prayer Service in DC perfectly exposed MAGA Christians’ hateful heresy. The immediate flood of vitriol directed at the Bishop by Trump

I do not obey in advance. I did all I could over the past year to avoid our nation winding up here in this sad and sickening place, and since

Dear Carrie Underwood, I hope this finds you well. I’m writing because I’ve heard you speak eloquently about your Christian faith in the past, watched you perform a song about

Lately, I confess that I’ve been imagining myself in a way I never have before in over a half-century of living here in America: I’m imagining myself as an expat.

Christian, Maybe you can help me here. I’m trying to reconcile two things I’ve seen. On one hand, I’ve seen your house: carefully strewn with glowing lights, fragrant boughs of

There is joy in MAGAville right now. They’re arrogantly reveling in a euphoric moment they’ve been lustfully coveting for the past four years: their mobster messiah has risen from the

This is probably a really bad idea. Writing while grieving deeply is like drunk-tweeting: it’s likely not going to come out well or effectively convey anything helpful. I don’t feel

It’s a cult. It’s as simple as that. For a decade now, we’ve all tried to analyze it, to explain it, to make some kind of sense of it. We’ve

The New York Times recently ran an op-ed entitled Joy is Not a Strategy. They could not be more wrong. Joy is dangerous. It’s wild. It’s subversive. And it’s contagious.

As Minnesota Governor Tim Walz was pausing in a moment of rapturous applause during his Vice Presidential acceptance speech at the DNC, the camera panned to his family, whose effusive

Dear White Christian, it’s time. It’s time to admit that this was all a horrible mistake: that whether you were misled by a pastor, deceived by a politician, manipulated by

Today, I attended a PRIDE event at a small town here in North Carolina known to be decidedly conservative and extremely slow to embrace LGBTQ equality. (Such an area is

The verdict is in. Donald Trump (the unhinged decade-long cult leader of the current Republican Party and its likely presidential candidate in a few months) is a convicted felon, found

We all have a story we tell ourselves, a narrative about who we are and what matters to us. It is the carefully curated working mythology of our daily lives

Yesterday I came across a video on a widely-followed Instagram page. It was a small section of a full Joe Rogan interview with author Coleman Hughes. In the clip, Hughes was accurately

This week, a dear friend of mine who makes a living publishing original content on social media and who has a large, vibrant following, messaged me to catch up on

They’re no longer saying the quiet part quietly. It’s all out in the open now. The extreme Christian Right (which is now essentially the de facto Republican Party) has declared

Nex Benedict will never see their seventeenth birthday. The beautiful, healthy, vibrant nonbinary teenager died at the hands of peers who bullied them incessantly and who violently beat them in

Recently, I asked my social media followers what gives them hope right now. A myriad of reasonable and predictable replies came back: children, grandchildren, spouses, partners, meaningful work, food, sex,