I’m getting sick of bad news. More accurately, I’m getting sick from bad news. I don’t mean figuratively sick, either—I mean that it is making me physically ill. I wake

Note: The following article may be triggering for abuse survivors. I grew up in the Catholic Church, attending Catholic School for the first 9 years of my educational life. Though

In my travels around this country lately, I meet lots of white progressives who fancy themselves woke. They feel this way, because they’re now aware (perhaps for the first time)

This week reminded how terrifying people can be. It reminded my how close and ugly the monsters are. An Oklahoma middle school shut down after explicit and violent threats on

“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” — Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride, The first Christians didn’t call themselves Christians. It

Yesterday I came across a report about Idaho’s June primary, trumpeting the state’s greatest voter turnout in nearly two decades. I was encouraged. Then I read it. I became sad.

Bigotry has always done more damage in the shadows, below the surface, and beneath a disguise. It actually helps you when it shows itself; when it brazenly parades uncovered through

A similar thing happens about a hundred or so times a day lately, as I engage professed Christians who still support this President: they unknowingly reveal their true religion. In

There’s an old saying: “When the horse is dead—dismount.” It’s time to stop beating that horse, America. It’s not going anywhere. I’ve tried for three years now. I’ve tried to

Donald Trump took to Twitter around midnight on a Saturday to malign the intelligence of NBA superstar Lebron James and CNN anchor Don Lemon during an interview regarding the former’s

Miserable. Every time I see them, this is the word that prevails. Whenever I encounter a supporter of Donald Trump on social media now, or scan the crowds at his

There are ways to alert you that people around you have lost the basic plot of humanity; massive red flags that point to a fundamental heart sickness, a cancer of

Yesterday, I was sitting at my desk; head down and plowing through both the literal and figurative piles of tasks before me, when I took a quick pause to breathe

Donald Trump is making orphans every single day in America—and more than merely the thousands of migrant children he separated their families on our Southern border (many he has yet

It’s exhausting to give a damn isn’t it? To be a person of compassion in a time when compassion is in such great demand? To wake up every day in

Dear Professed “Pro-Life” Christian, I know you think you’re winning right now—or you’re trying really hard to pretend that you are. (I sense you losing a bit of confidence lately,

Enough. Really, friend—take off the big red hat and retire it. That whole MAGA nonsense has reached its expiration date.  All your flag-waving histrionics and your hand-wringing anthem outrage have

“I feel like I’m losing my mind.” These words are a continual presence these days. I hear them a couple hundred times a day, in one form or another. I read

I hear a familiar refrain lately regarding this Presidency, which by most objective evaluations is one of the most corrupt and reckless in our nation’s history: lots of Americans are

  Donald Trump spends a great deal of time telling Americans how frightened they should be of the people walking among them. He reminds them every chance he gets that

Civility? That’s the card you’re pulling now, Trump supporters? That’s where you’ve landed? That’s your go-to play at this stage of the game? Given your leader and your resume— it’s

People often say God moves in mysterious ways. I won’t argue with them. I’ve been a local church pastor for more than two decades. Over recent years, as I started

Sunday is coming. Soon, millions of Americans will find themselves in the houses of worship that dot nearly every corner of this country; disparate buildings where they’ll gather under the

America, what are you doing today? While children are still in cages here in your country, what are you doing? While daughters torn from their father’s arms and infant sons