They would not help people. Not one of them. They all voted no on giving aid to Americans during the single greatest health crisis of our lifetimes: one that has

The first time I came across an article about anti-maskers,  I thought it had to be satire. “There’s no way that’s real.” I responded almost involuntarily, all but certain that

Joe Raedle/Getty Images/AFP I’ve seen this movie before. It doesn’t end well. As a Christian for most of my life and a pastor for nearly three decades, I’m quite familiar

President Joe Biden is a man who understands loss. You can see it in the deep lines on his face, you can hear it in the way his voice shakes,

500,000 people in a year, gone. 5 full University of Alabama Stadiums. 192 9-11 attacks. 8.6 Vietnam Wars. 500,000 lives in 12 months. 500,000 mothers, best friends, favorite uncles, beloved

You’ll never go broke betting on Republicans to do the wrong thing. Of course, Ted Cruz jetted off to Cancun in middle of a monstrous winter storm along with his

“God will not be mocked.” Growing up a Christian, I’ve heard that phrase more times than I can count, often punctuating the finger-wagging sermons of sweaty, red-faced televangelist’s in their

Actor Gina Carano was fired from the Lucasfilm-produced series The Mandalorian, broadcast on Disney+, after months of fan pressure in the wake of Carano’s steady social media stream of anti-mask,

I thought we had an agreement here. Human beings are supposed to have a bottom: a base level of decency that defines us, a place we will not go to

                            Photo: Marvel Studios WARNING: The following contains spoilers and/or possible spoilers for Marvel’s WandaVision on Disney+.

As I watched Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s gripping Instagram account of the January 6th terrorist attack on the Capitol, while in awe of her strength, moved by her candor, and sickened

Christian. To paraphrase a wise man, “They keep using that word. I do not think it means what they think it means.” Every day my timeline is filled with God

Something’s wrong here. I can feel it in my bones. That wrong-ness wakes me up at night. It shortens my breath and twists my stomach into knots. It furrows my

We fooled ourselves, good people. For the last four years we told one another a necessary story. Because we wanted to believe the best about humanity, many of us clung

During his Inaugural address, just as he had done many times on the campaign trail, President Biden once again delivered a heartfelt plea for national unity, saying: Today, on this

This is a sad day for America. That’s all a former friend of ours could post on social media during the Inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. A sad

Dear President Trump, In the waning hours of your presidency, I wanted to take a few moments to express my deepest gratitude for all that you’ve done. It will be

This week we’re inaugurating a president who has received a historic number of votes, winning by a staggering seven million.   We’re inaugurating a brilliant woman of color as his

MAGA friend, you can admit it now. “Blue Lives” never really mattered to you, did they? At least, not as much as your white life. Don’t worry about letting us

Many of the faces were already familiar. We saw them in real-time, smashing Capitol building windows, scaling walls, and parading through the halls of Congress, beaming with self-satisfaction. We could

Samuel Corum/GettyImages The Scriptures say that the truth will set you free. Right now, millions of white Christians in America are in a fortified prison of our own design; the

A brazen act of white domestic terrorism on our nation’s Capitol: thousands of people streaming toward the seats of Congress, with nothing between them but a flimsy chain link fence

The night has a way of fooling you. Though it is a temporary condition, it can convince you it is permanent: that it will always be this dark, this terrifying,

Photo by Sarah Silbiger/Reuters For years, people have been talking about Donald Trump’s “mental state,” throwing around the term mental illness as a lazy catch-all for his erratic behavior, inexhaustible