Every day, I inevitably receive some variation of the same message from someone who voted for Donald Trump: “You lost dude, deal with it!”—something like that. It’s a snarky, middle finger,

Dear 2016, You need to leave already. I’ve waited nearly 12 full months for you to get your act together and to act like you were in this thing with me, but it’s

Dear Hillary, I hope this finds you well. I’ve been meaning to write you for a while. I was thinking of you again today and I guess I just wanted

    Image copyright Disney Studios. ROGUE ONE SPOILER ALERT!!! Three-quarters of the way through Rogue One, a sick truth kicked me in the stomach, nearly making me drop my industrial-sized popcorn tub:

“I feel like this election has broken something in me.” – A Christian reader I’ve heard these sentiments countless times over the past month from people of faith who are

He sees you when you’re sleeping. He knows when you’re awake. He knows if you’ve been bad or good, so be good for goodness sake. The older I get and

Dear Evangelical Preachers, I think you believe you’re helping right now. I think you believe you’re actually glorifying God. I think you believe you’re somehow bolstering the Gospel. I think

In these days having a working heart is a hazardous proposition. Looking around and seeing how calloused the world has become, how much bitterness has seeped into the bloodstream, how little

Every year at this time Christians in America go to battle. They speak of a great war: the one they claim is being waged on Christmas; the one in which they

A few days ago we started making plans to spend Christmas week in Central New York with my extended family. It’s been a long time since we made the trek up North

The holidays are difficult when you’re losing your religion. When your beliefs begin to shift and when doubt creeps in, those dates on the calendar that used to bring such joy, the ones

When you lose someone you love, good people do what good people do—they try and help. They see you in the deepest despair and they want desperately to pull you out,

I’m sorry to break it to you, Internet Evangelical trolls—but Jesus was a social justice warrior. He could also probably come across as a real jerk sometimes, too. Most Christians paint

In a land where the states are united, they claim, in a sky-scraping tower adorned with his name, lived a terrible, horrible, devious chump, the bright orange miscreant known as the

Oh, we need a little Christmas, right this very minute…. Have you ever felt like something was off, something you couldn’t quite place but you were sure of just the same;

They say that every man has his price; present him with an attractive enough offer and he will part with even that which he treasures most. All convictions become negotiable, every

Days have a way of fooling us. Most of them look so unassuming and normal when they arrive, so very ordinary that we don’t care for them properly. We take

I’m not okay with this. I’m not getting over it. I’m not going to accept it. I’m not going to move on. I’m not going to shut up. I’m not

Guilt is a powerful drug. Once it has its hooks in you, once it enters your bloodstream, it can impossible to get yourself free. For twenty years I’ve been a

We often view gratitude through the filter of what is pleasant, as if only comfort and ease are worth being thankful for.  Today, here are a few places you might

Words have persuasive power. They are stunningly deceptive. They can begin to fool you the longer they hang around. Hear them enough times and you become numb to their truth. The

My apologies in advance. I was going to use this space to share some wise and pithy insights on how to navigate the holidays after one of the most divisive,