A friend told me that I seemed angry lately and at first it really pissed me off. I instantly mounted a spirited, vigorous defense laying out the reasons she had

Take a quick second and look back on the past week or so of your life. Have you received a text that was truly urgent? An email that honestly needed

If you weren’t watching it live you’ve seen it by now. While presenting at the Academy Awards, comedian Chris Rock makes a joke at the expense of actress Jada Pinkett

Yesterday, a stranger on social media was defending Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s disturbing steadfast support of Russian President Vladimir Putin and the continual flood of atrocities being committed in

This is exhausting. I think I’ve figured out why. I think it’s the pretending. It’s bad enough watching nearly half our nation becoming fully indoctrinated into a sycophantic cult of

You should be a little weary right now. If you are, be grateful. That is a good thing. That weariness is confirmation that your heart is working properly. It is

Years ago while serving as a student pastor, I received an email from a 12th grade girl who I’d met three days earlier at a youth ministry event. That night,

Chris McGrath/Getty Images Watching the slow and steady Russian advance toward Ukraine over recent weeks, a stomach-turning series of thoughts took up residence in my head: They’re not going to

COVID is over. That’s the single refrain of Conservative Americans right now. They shout it in red-faced, profanity-laden diatribes at the meetings of beleaguered school boards. They embody it as

So much to grieve over. It isn’t just their childish tantrums at being asked to wear a mask at the grocery store, or their nonsensical claims of personal oppression. It

The most common question people ask me when we talk either in person or virtually, is essentially a variation on a single theme: “How do I love someone I no

Recently, a Tennessee school board voted to ban Maus, a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust from their eight grade curriculum. This has become a familiar tactic of Republican

Today, I was having a conversation with a man on social media about the Republican Party’s passionate opposition to voting rights, its continued efforts to suppress votes and to gerrymander

We all saw it. On January 6th, 2021, many of us watched it in disbelief in real time: the almost incomprehensible sight of thousands of people breaching the very seat

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

The first time I came across #LETSGOBRANDON, I was in line at a craft store picking up some stocking stuffers, and a woman in her late forties with three young

Photo: David McNew/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images December 14th, 2020 should have been the beginning of the end of this horror. With the administering of the first dose of a

I’ve spent much of my life pastoring in predominately white churches in the South.  Before that, I was raised in a family with many Conservatives. I’ve always been surrounded by

Today is a day of mourning for millions of Americans. You can see the bereaved everywhere you look. They may not be dressed in black or sitting in a church

Photo Credit: @RepThomasMassie Twitter page Kentucky Republican Representative Thomas Massie tweeted out this photo of his family all holding weapons and wearing beaming smiles, with the caption: Merry Christmas! ps.

A reader from Australia texted me last night. He’d been watching the news and said he wanted to check on me. We’re heartbroken to hear what’s going on there. he wrote. Is

Yes, Kyle Rittenhouse has been on trial but so has white America. And though the former may escape justice, the latter will not be so fortunate. The evidence against it

MAGAs like to tell us there is a “War on Christmas.” They’re right. The truth is, Jesus wouldn’t have stood a chance in MAGA America. They would have cancelled him

Tonight, I heard an NPR segment about how many white people in America are tired of being called racist for voting Republican. The assembled pundits expounded eloquently about how “toxic”