I often have people tell me that I’m a hateful human being. Sometimes, these are complete strangers who incessantly lurk like sharks in my Twitter feed, other times estranged family

Dear Conservative Christians, I need your help. I’m trying to figure out your stance, here. I can’t make sense of it. You’re telling me that you’re a follower of Jesus.

It’s open season on school children. In the wake of nearly two years of a pandemic that has raged furiously through the planet, politically-poisoned, religion-addled people who’ve spent that time

I’m really tired. Marrow-deep, hope-sucking, soul-choking exhausted. There are all sorts of reasons for this: a seeming endless pandemic, the unfathomable death toll, a mass defiant resistance to the most

Yesterday, a video showed up on my timeline of a middle-aged white woman in a grocery store following another woman and her daughter around, intentionally coughing on them, smirking and

September is here.  Every year, when the calendar changes, they arrive: the #NeverForget-ers. Soon, millions of Americans will post their flowery tributes and loudly broadcast their patriotism and tweet out

Sometimes truly seeing people is a real bummer. I recently found out through a series of unhinged social media posts, that an old and dear friend of mine from my

In organized religion, one of the central questions has always been and continues to be Who has it right? For millennia, billions and billions of human beings spanning the planet

Photo by Jeremy Hogan/SOPA Images Freedom is an unearned privilege—and you have it. If you were born here in America you inherited it. It came with your breath and your

I’ve seen this movie before. Watching the Taliban gloating in the Presidential palace in Kabul this week after violently overthrowing the government there, gave me major January 6th déjà vu.

Every single day I’m inundated with professed Christians who steadfastly and loudly refuse to be vaccinated under the auspices of their faith. They write to me or respond on social

I can’t believe we’re still here. I can’t believe that we’re entering the second full year of this unfathomable madness. We are, and we don’t need to be. Here in

Simone Biles has already won. Tokyo will have no say in the matter. These Olympics will not be the last word. Her professional resume speaks for itself. Her physical prowess,

People often refer to me as an influencer and ask me how I became one. They invite to influencer gatherings and put me on influencer conference panels and ask me

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

The cruelty is the point. I’ve heard people use this phrase when speaking about Conservatives in America for a while now. In the face of a decision as objectively adversarial

Two weeks ago, we took a family trip out of state, our first in eighteen months. Three-quarters of us had been fully vaccinated with two doses of the Pfizer shot,

July 4th is a MAGA high holiday and Republicans know this. They know that in addition to marking the birth of our nation and the foundations of our Constitution (which

(Trigger warning: discussion of sexual assault, rape, abuse, violence) Bill Cosby is free. The 60 women he assaulted are not. As he steps into the undeserved light of a life

He’s got the whole world, in His hands… I learned this song so long ago that I actually don’t remember learning it. It seemingly came with my default operating system:

Last night I was talking to a group of people about the last year and a half and the toll it’s taken on all of us. They inventoried the familiar

I used to think I loved America. I used to fully believe in its greatness. Growing up, I bought into its songs and its anthems and its stirring mythology of

I’ve been a pastor in the church for over two decades, much of that in predominantly white churches in the American South. I’ve spent countless hours in church staff meetings

As an affirming student pastor, I have been given a profound gift. For decades, hundreds of people (many of them in their teens and early twenties) have entrusted me with