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.

There’s something we’re not talking about during this pandemic, though it’s not surprising, as we don’t talk about it very much during the easiest of days. We’re not talking about

Photo by Joshua Bickel It’s like the script in a terrifying blockbuster horror series: 1,000 people a day are dying from a contagious disease carried by infected human beings, who

This morning I had one of those bittersweet moments you get as a parent from time to time: you see your children transforming in front of you. I walked downstairs

The President recently said that he wanted to see all churches to be open immediately. That isn’t necessary. He doesn’t know what the Church is, or he’d speak differently. It

Love is powerful. It will make human beings do almost anything. We’re seeing that right now. Some people adore capitalism so much, they’re willing to sell their souls to support

A reporter asked Donald Trump what he would say to Americans who are scared right now. He refused to answer. He grew belligerent. He showed no compassion, offered no encouragement,

Last night I was having a Face Time conversation with a friend. In our sleeplessness and anxiety we were debriefing the last few simply unfathomable days: the alarming acceleration of

Are you getting it now, Conservative American friends? Are you understanding them any better? Are you connecting the dots at all between you both? Can you see the lengths decent

Growing up Christian, I remember reading about Jesus’s disciple John the Baptist, saying to those who would follow him in the ways of compassion and mercy and love and justice,

The bill for MAGA has come due, Trump supporters. It’s time to pay up. The deferred invoice for you selling your souls is here. It’s time to pay for every

In the Christian calendar, Lent is a 40-day season of preparation beginning on Ash Wednesday and leading into Easter; a time meant to echo Jesus’ 40-day period of solitude in

Progressives don’t need Donald Trump to defeat us. We’re doing fine on our own. The enmity and ugliness of the Democratic primary season has been off the charts, and particularly

You look scared, Donald. You should be. A pandemic is problematic for you. You can’t gaslight a pandemic. You can’t bully it into compliance. You can’t lie to it and

You are a mystery to me. I watch you standing there with wide-eyed, breathless adoration, and I simply can’t fathom how you ended up there in that spot, what it