How much is America worth to you? What would you sacrifice in order to stop the suffering you’re seeing every day on the news and on your timeline and in

Well, they’ve finally done it. The Religious Right has completed their wholesale reboot of Christianity and it now bears no resemblance to the original. It has fully abandoned its namesake.

Hopelessness is a waste. It’s useless. It’s powerless. It’s also contagious. Friend, if you’re feeling hopeless today you’re in good company. For many of us, it’s been a tall order

America is broken. I’m not sure that’s up for debate at this point. But let’s be clear about something: Donald Trump didn’t break it. He didn’t create anything. Not the

While so many people have openly and rightly lamented the devastating effect the misogynistic MAGA movement is having on girls and young women, we’ve forgotten something critical: our sons have

CPAC is a microcosm of American Conservative heresy. If you want to see a US State Representative engaging in performative religiosity in a fake jail cell while kneeling in pantomimed

A similar thing happens to me on many mornings lately. My eyes open and I suddenly become aware that I’m awake. My mind quickly begins assembling the first few seconds of my day (making plans,

There’s nothing more dangerous than professed Christians who have no real interest in Jesus. They’re rather easy to spot if you’re paying attention. They’re usually the ones most loudly claiming

This should be easy. We have just endured the most corrupt, inept, and relentlessly predatory presidential administration in our history. We have witnessed a willfully and tragically mismanaged public health

When the law fails you, where do you go? When the highest court in a nation is compromised to the point that it disregards the law and becomes becomes predatory

My Dear Daughter, I’ve been thinking about you ever since the news a few days ago. Every time I try to find the words to talk about this to you,

On June 19th 1865, Federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas to declare the emancipation of all Americans, of every slave being freed.  The Emancipation Proclamation had been issued two-and-a-half years

Marches are powerful things. They are a necessary visual reminder that we are not alone. They help provide a sense of agency in dark days, to right size the threats

I’ve long heard rumors of the LGBTQ community’s insidious master plan to contaminate and corrupt our sweet cisgender heterosexual setup here on planet earth, and I decided I’d get to

It’s a real shame that school children aren’t AR-15s. If school children were AR-15s, Conservatives would treat them with kid gloves. They’d be ever so careful with their words so

My 12-year has to do active shooter drills in her school. On many days, instead of spending the morning talking about the migration of birds or learning about global weather

I am exhausted. I didn’t sleep well last night. I did some things I really didn’t want to do yesterday. I didn’t want to watch the videos or to look

Parents, I wonder how your children came home today. They may have come through the door like a human hormone cyclone: exploding loudly through the room and leaving a trail

This week, San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone notified House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in a letter, that she is banned from receiving holy communion due to her support of a woman’s

Photo credit: Melissa Golden/Redux There’s a strange moment in nearly all of my interactions with professed pro-life women, one that never fails to disorient me and grieve me. Whether they’re

Mother’s Day should not be compulsory for any woman. It should be the yearly celebration of a decision, a moment to mark a beautiful but perilous journey one has carefully

Dear Republicans, This doesn’t have to be this difficult. It really doesn’t. This is all so frustrating to watch. I wish I could make you understand some things that you

For the past six years, many of us knew this day was coming. We sounded every alarm, rang every bell, we shot up a thousand desperate flares to rile people

Ever since Donald Trump was recorded saying vile, sickening things about women (and his supporters and surrogates were quickly forced to rationalize and defend it all in order to still