Recently, in a conversation about race with Chick-Fil-A CEO Dan Cathy and Christian rapper Lecrae, Atlanta megachurch pastor Louie Giglio said: “We understand the curse that was slavery … but

As a rule, denial is a really terrible life-saving strategy, no matter how popular it might be. Yesterday, I drove past a house party in my neighborhood: thirty or so

So, how’s 2020 going? Yeah, I know. Hey, remember back when we thought 2019 was horrible? When 2018 was heartbreaking? When 2017 was an abject disaster? Remember on December 31st,

This week as I stood here in Raleigh inside a glorious mass of humanity moving through the streets with fists and signs and voices raised, I found my mind wandering.

Black Lives Matter. I’ve heard you say it and I’ve seen you tweet it, but I wonder what it means to you.  Here’s what I hope it means: I hope

New Orlean Saints Drew Brees is by all accounts a really good guy: philanthropic, generous, and beloved around the NFL. He’s the kind of rugged, earnest, faithful team leader sports

And Jesus walked into the 3rd Precinct, sat down and began to teach them, saying: “You have heard it said, ‘Whatever you do unto the least of these, you do

“You’re so angry.” Yes, I am. I need you to know why. I’m angry that you willingly voted for a vile, predatory ignoramus who said the most despicable things about

White friend, how much is your father worth to you?   Your son? Your sister? Your spouse? Your mother?   Would they be worth stopping traffic if they were suffocated

Racism is a prolific killer. We’re seeing that right now. It is entrepreneurial in its malice and it will use whatever means necessary to eliminate those it is threatened by

100,00* people, America. 100,000 lives in 108 days. 100,000 mothers, best friends, favorite uncles, beloved teachers, helpful neighbors, papas, grandmas, first loves, only children, soul mates. 100,000 givers and helpers

Tonight at dinner, we were talking about some people we know with loved ones who contracted the coronavirus, about the difficulty they had caring for someone while distancing from them,

We’re burying the lede here, America. 83,000 Americans have died as of this writing. (By the time you read this, I shudder to think what that number will be.) 83,000

Ahmaud Arbery is dead because he was a black man. He was hunted down by two white strangers in broad daylight because he was two things: he was black and

Freedom is an unearned privilege—and you have it. If you were born here in America you inherited it.  It came with your breath and your birth certificate. That freedom actually

Photo AFP via Getty Images. As a white man watching the Michigan protests of Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s stay-at-home orders, all I could think was:  Black people don’t get to do

A friend of mine shared a social media post from a white Christian woman confessing that she was “torn” because of the side-choosing right now in America; saying “we’re all

I have no illusions about America. I see it clearly with the sober eyes that have little use for nostalgia. I don’t pine for some long-forgotten time of supposed greatness

Photo by Alyson McClaran/@McClaranAlyson We can say it now, can’t we? I mean, at this point it isn’t really up for debate, is it? You can come clean now, fess

I know many people fortunate enough to know god personally. They’re able to say with great confidence and precise specificity, what the Maker of All Things is doing at any

Opening America. The President keeps teasing it in his daily propaganda, ego-stroke photo op. His sycophantic surrogates repeat the refrain on social media and in press releases. Soulless partisan television

Trump was president for 1,460 days. I’ve been trying to find a way to describe that time, to summarize in a small space, the depth and breadth of the injury

Ever since the restrictions and cancellations and changes in response to COVID-19 began a few weeks ago (back before we regularly used terms like social distancing, self-isolation, and flattening the curve), we’ve all

You likely know the Easter story, even if you don’t claim it as your own: An innocent man tortured, murdered, and buried in a tomb.  Three days of breathtaking grief.