The truth is, children are far safer in a public bathroom with a transgender person than with a MAGA Evangelical—and it ain't even close.
John Pavlovitz
The change in these people has been stunning in its velocity and stomach-turning in its depths—and the worst part is that they can't be reached anymore.
You could call Trump a businessman or a soulless parasite who feeds off things that were thriving, until those things are dead, and then moving on. Potato—Potahto.
If there’s one truth about bullies, which President Zelenskyy reminded us of with precise clarity, it’s that they’re absolutely terrified of resistance.
When MAGA Americans finally realize that they too are victims of the criminality and predation they initially hoped would only be for those despised others, then it will be a bridge too far.
The vast majority of Americans are fully sickened to our core by the violence visited upon Ukraine every day.
We’ve lived our entire lives in the false comfort of the belief that a fascist takeover can’t happen here. But it can and it is—and soon, whether we want to believe it or not, we’re all going to find ourselves in situations like the people in Idaho did.
All we need to do now, is to all become wealthy, white Christian Republican Congressmen and we'll be set. Or, maybe those of us who are not need to make our voices heard.
America is not yet near where Germany was at the peak of Hitler's power, but Germany wasn't always there either, and that is the point.
Silence in the face of oppression is compliance, it's participation.
May we who oppose the cruelty on display, never become so devoid of lightness that we resemble those who celebrate that cruelty.
America isn’t just some New Jersey casino, Florida country club, or New York City high-rise that a madman and his kids get to stick their names on and suck dry for their benefit.
Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde stood in a Washington, DC cathedral and did the one thing spiritual leaders are here to do: she let her faith speak unequivocally—pushback, conflict, and retribution be damned.
This America is not the America Dr. King dreamed of—and until it is, we who share the dream need to steward that dream in such a way that it brings us conflict and discomfort and injury; because his dream requires such things from the privileged.
White Christian nationalism isn’t just an existential threat to this nation, it’s a sickening, collective sin that flies in the face of Jesus.
Compassion is the defiant, relentless, rebellious burden that will not allow us to turn away when someone is hurting—and there are so many who are hurting right now.