The previous President has been many things since arriving: a national embarrassment, a global punchline, an environmental disaster, a divider of people, a prolific murderer of the English language. But

I woke up this morning and there they were waiting for me, the latest round of black and white saviors from the ether: the hashtag warriors. Some of them still

I usually avoid small talk, as it’s an introvert’s kryptonite, but yesterday at the pharmacy I made eye contact with the woman in line behind me and started up a

As a Christian, I take the words of Jesus seriously. They matter to me. I don’t think they’re theoretical ideas meant to be uttered for an hour on Sunday or

You say that you’re pro-life. You let me know in hashtags and bumper stickers and t-shirts and memes and march photos and sermons and high horse sanctimony.  You treasure and

I know how you feel. People often said those words to me in one form or another after my father died. I knew they meant well. I knew they were

I feel sorry for white Evangelicals and fundamentalist Christians. It must be awful to go through life terrified; to believe that you are perpetually in danger, to always be threatened

Apparently, I’ve been radicalized and I wasn’t aware. Certain people call me the “radical Left” all the time. I never considered myself radical before. I just thought I was normal,

Greta Thunberg is one in a million. (Actually, she is one in seven point five billion.) She is infinitesimally small, statistically insignificant, numerically inconsequential. She is a brief cosmic blip.

I am a newly retired optimist. I used to believe that things would always be okay: that no matter how bad circumstances seemed in the world, I trusted that people

Teach your children well. Their father’s hell, did slowly go by. And feed them on your dreams. The one they pick’s, the one you’ll know by.  – Crosby, Stills, Nash,

My cousin-in-law Steve, died this past week at the age of 23 after a heroic and lifelong battle with an autoimmune disease and blood disorder. I shared Stephen and his

A previously undiscovered version of the Christian Bible was recently unearthed during a renovation beneath the bathroom of a Louisville, Kentucky Chick-Fil-A. This new ‘MAGA Translation,’ contains the ‘Gospel According

  History is a good teacher. If we pay attention to her, she reminds us that populations don’t become monstrous overnight, that nations don’t abandon humanity in a single moment,

I’ve been a pastor for twenty-five years and a Christian for most of my life, and I don’t think prayer works anymore—at least not in the way we people of

Andrew luck is tired. He’s tired of being sacked repeatedly by walking, breathing mountains. He’s tired of injuries and surgeries and rehabs and setbacks and re-injury. He’s tired of rumors

Nothing in this life comes for free, even though we sometimes imagine it does. Everything valuable we receive needs to be paid for somehow. Eventually the bill comes due for

There are phrases you hear so much, they start to become white noise: “You’re too political.” “You’re too angry.” “You’re too partisan.” I’ve been a registered Independent for thirty years.

It’s a real shame that school children aren’t guns. If school children were guns, Conservatives would treat them with kid gloves. They’d be ever so careful with their words so

A year ago I walked into an older relative’s house unannounced. They’d been expecting us that day for lunch, but we’d arrived thirty minutes earlier than we’d planned—so we knocked

People tell me things. It is one of the great treasures of my life. When I meet strangers who’ve read my writing, they often feel safe to share what they

This should be the final straw for us, America. Compassionate human beings should not tolerate this. People who claim to be pro-life should be brought to tears. Those espousing family

Back in 2016 I wrote a book called ‘A Bigger Table.’ It was the continuation of my then twenty year journey as a local church pastor, trying to craft spiritual

I have mental illness. I’ve battled it fiercely for more than half my life. Over two decades ago, I began to realize I was different from many people (or at