To a large swath of the people, it doesn’t matter what Trump does or how many people are harmed by his growing legacy of crimes and moral offenses—they are riding him into the abyss.
John Pavlovitz
Every human being here deserves to find joy and to be truly free in their shoes and in their skin. Are we there yet?
Republicans, if you care as deeply about this nation as you claim you do, you’ll dismount the dead horse myth of Trump’s patriotism and Hillary’s treason—and you’ll stand on your own two feet.
America has never been a “Christian nation,” as Conservatives claim, but for most of its history, power and privilege have been in the hands of religious white people with a Caucasian Christ.
Evangelicals were a largely powerless, dying dinosaur until 2016, when Donald Trump acquired the presidency and gave them the perfect amoral partner to serve as the biggest bully pulpit they’ve ever had.
If there is a sharp dividing line in America now, this is it. It is the line between joyful people and miserable people; between those who live open-handed toward the world and those whose fists are balled-up tightly.
It is time to expose and confront the fraudulence of phobic Christian bigots who hate and persecute people and then pass the buck to a Jesus who never once condemned anyone for their gender and orientation.
In these days it is not enough to be good. You must be both good and loud. You must risk the slings and arrows of both strangers and of siblings, and speak directly into the bloated, contorted face of hatred until it hears you and cannot ignore you.
When black officers pulled Tyre Nichols over, they did so as representatives of a faulty apparatus, one that has for decades perpetuated the message that black people are less than human.
Jesus, the radical activist, declared us all responsible for our brothers, for our neighbors, even our enemies. His followers created interdependent communities where each was accountable to the other.
Anthony Fauci is everything Donald Trump, his perpetually uninformed base, and sociopathic GOP politicians like Lauren Boebert, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Matt Gaetz despise: he is intelligent, educated, principled, and compassionate.
Perhaps the most disturbing part of the ugly rise of open anti-Semitism in America is that it is so often coming from the professed devoted followers of a Jewish rabbi born in Judea and versed in the Old Testament.
White Evangelical Christianity as it is currently constructed in America cannot peaceably coexist with the Jesus of the scriptures—which is why it is choosing to remove him.
The violent targeting of the LGBTQ community is not a random aberration they are trying to make sense of, it is more like a GOP campaign promise fulfilled.
Yes, there are some really miserable human beings doing some incredibly cruel things to a whole lot of people—many from Senate seats and mega church pulpits and capitol buildings and television studios. But that is not the whole story.
In 2018, more than 100 million people didn’t find a compelling enough reason to leave the house and allot a couple of hours to speak into the future of their children, of their country, of the planet.