Republican friend, I really wish I could understand you. I wish I could step into your shoes, climb inside your head, peek into your heart and see what it is

Former ESPN talk show host Jemele Hill posted a series of Tweets calling President Trump a white supremacist who has surrounded himself with other white supremacists. Lots of white Americans

“To listen to lots of Christians—God must be a real a-hole.” – A non-Christian friend When a series of devastating hurricanes struck in September 2017, sitcom actor turned evangelical celebrity

Sometimes you look at the world and you understand just why things are the way they are.  The Rape and Incest National Network (RAINN)  reports that 11.2 percent of all

I watched it happen over and over in Houston last year after Hurricane Harvey arrived, and it brought me to tears every single time: an imperiled human being sits perched

To the Local Pastors, Celebrity Evangelists, and Christian Leaders, and Christian Voters who called (and are still calling) Donald Trump a Christian: You endorsed his campaign from your pulpits and

America has always been the place people could nurture dreams that found welcome nowhere else; the adoptive home for dreamers from every square inch of the planet who came as

“We should do a CAT scan just to rule out some things.” the Urgent Care doctor said. Before I could ask him, he responded to the question that immediately formed

Dear Joel Osteen, Over the past few days you’ve faced an unrelenting wave of Internet shaming, and you’ve experienced the wrath of millions of people who watched the week unfold

This week over 150 Evangelical pastors and Conservative Christian leaders released a joint manifesto on sexuality and marriage entitled the Nashville Statement. The Tennessee city’s name was attached to the

This American Evangelical Christian Church wasn’t the plan. Well, it wasn’t Jesus’ plan. It may have been Constantine’s plan—but not Jesus’. Evangelists with a political leader’s ear; publicly shilling for him

“Why do you still call yourself a Christian?” If I had a dime for every time someone asked me that question—I’d be writing this from my villa in Tuscany while

Earlier in the week I wrote about the privilege of being able to opt out of politics, out of activism, out of engaging in the difficult, messy work of justice

Yesterday, a dear friend of mine and I were catching up on each other’s lives after not having spoken for a while. As our conversation turned to the news of

We Christians like to talk about Hell a lot, so let’s talk about Hell a little. Hell began in the very first few daylight hours after Donald Trump’s election victory:

Mr. President, Thank you for giving me a name today. I wasn’t quite sure until now, but you helped me find myself.  “Alt-Left.” That’s what you said. That’s what you

As a writer and pastor, my job is to weave together words so that those words will hopefully reach people in their deepest places; to frame the experience of this

When things in our lives are defective, we get rid of them. When they aren’t functioning properly, when they no longer serve their original intended purpose, when they present a

We all have things trending in our heads at any given moment; words that occupy the daily bandwidth of our thoughts and monopolize our attention as we move through the

Texting is easy. My children can do it (in fact, far faster than I can.) It’s an effortless thing to toss out 280-character salvos at people we disagree with, to

Earlier this year Sinead O’Connor posted a video from a New Jersey hotel room, in which she shares in raw, unflinching detail, her long battle with mental illness. In the

Parents out there with LGBTQ children: I see you. I see your held back tears and the weariness you wear and the weight upon your shoulders. I hear you when you tell me how

This far into Donald Trump’s Presidency, I’m aware that some of you take great issue with my pointed critiques of the man, his body of work, and his supporters—because you’re

Dear Trump Supporter, For years you’ve been telling me that you don’t actually hate LGBTQ people; that in fact you quite love them—you just despise their “immoral lifestyle choices.” You’ve