Are you feeling this, America? What is unfolding at the Kennedy Center: This joyous subtraction. This glorious removal. This is the collective jubilation of watching a vile disfigurement reversed, a terrible

Hey, America. I get it: this feels like it’s never going to end, like this oppressive darkness will never lift, like the disorienting chaos of these days is now our

Hey there, we’re the Republican Party, and we’re pro-life! You are? Yup! Cool… so you’re for affordable healthcare for everyone? Umm, well, not exactly; we can’t just take care of everyone. Can you imagine

I was talking with a few friends recently about the state of the nation, and as it often does, the conversation turned toward people we know who still support 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

To all the white Republican professed Christians across this country: to hell with you. To hell with you, as you have the unmitigated audacity to fill churches throughout this nation

Hey MAGAs and Trump Supporters, No Cinco de Mayo for you. Seriously, y’all need to sit this one out No one wants to see you ICE-supporting, immigrant-slandering, landscaper-harassing fascist bootlickers

It’s been said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Right now, I’d say that it’s stepping into a

Boy, being in a cult really rots your brain. Watching the Right assembling online with virtual torches and pitchforks, engaging in wild histrionics and performative pearl-clutching, while calling for the

Hey, friends, this message isn’t for everyone. It’s not for people who are okay. If you’re perfectly fine, you can skip this. If you’re emotionally regulated, mentally stable, and physically

“I love Donald Trump. We’ll never get another president like Donald Trump. That is why it’s important we do everything we can to try to get him re-elected.” A Republican

A friend of mine who is politically active and engaged every day in justice work here in our town recently confessed to me and a group of friends, “Dozens of

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