Spending two-and-a-half hours immersed in the flat-out brilliance of Wicked, it’s impossible to miss the parallels of the moments playing out in Oz there and those here in America:
John Pavlovitz
Read the Gospel stories of Jesus and hold those up against what organized Christianity is passing off as faithfulness these days and you'll see it clearly: there's virtually no shared resemblance.
Ultimately, many Trump voters are motivated primarily by fear, and fear is a heck of a drug to get out of your system once you're hooked on it.
Knowing that no one is at their best when they are afraid, Republican politicians and Evangelical preachers have kindled unearned hysteria in their rank-and-file beautifully.
The fire and brimstone, pulpit pounding, Bible thumping prognosticators had everything about America's approaching moral disaster correct, except for one thing: its source.
How do we go back to anything resembling normal, knowing how many people we know and love, work and study and live alongside have tripled down on lawlessness and bigotry?
We, the "enemy within," are here as allies of hope and joy and love—and that makes us adversaries to Trump, opposition to his seething disciples, and obstacles to his fever dreams of domination and retribution.
When sexual assault, Hitler aspirations and open treason aren't deal-breakers to Americans anymore we have more than a small problem.
Most Conservative Christians have lived so long in this grotesque perversion of Jesus, that they simply accept that this is how their faith is supposed to look and sound and react.
Trump is not a good human being in any way such things are objectively measured. And good people don't align with this, no matter what story they tell themselves.
Kamala Harris has a living, active spirituality that speaks for itself in its joy for living, its work for justice, and its love for neighbor.
If we fail in November, White Evangelicals will have a political power that will render every election null and void and we will never have a voice again in our lifetimes.
Being a pro-life MAGA voter is to be a living, breathing oxymoron whose actions are antithetical to their words.
More than three-quarters of the time the former President and his Vice Presidential candidate open their mouths in a press conference or an early morning social media post or at a public rally—they are lying.
This is a golden moment for the vast, sprawling army of good people who believe in the beauty of diversity and in a fully accessible America to speak out and vote.
The idea that a former president would weaponize people’s pain for his failing campaign is totally on brand for this rapist-felon-conman-grifter who lies as easily as he breathes.