Living well isn't just the best revenge—it's also the greatest resistance. Take care of yourselves and those around you.
John Pavlovitz
Time to give thanks for the rabble-rousers and the good troublemakers who serve as a thorn in the side of the sorrow-bringers; those who confound and exasperate and push back when human dignity is assailed.
I believe America will be less secure, less diverse, less compassionate, and less decent under his leadership. And so, I proudly declare my future resistance to his grotesque version of American “greatness,” no matter how difficult this becomes.
Hope isn’t something anyone can give you; it doesn’t come from a post you read or a speech you stream or a seminar you attend. It’s not downloaded from social media or handed down like an inheritance from a wise, older relative.
It's all been fairly disheartening to see one's faith tradition swallowed up by a violent, bullying, gun-toting, whitewashed, Don't Tread on Me cultural smallness.
In their Christmas Carol, there would only be the continuing waking nightmare visited upon good people, by men and women of privilege whose souls or humanity could no longer be reached.
The very white Conservatives who’ve been loudly sounding the alarm, are the incessantly-advancing hordes. They’re the only ones warring with Christmas because they’ve disregarded their own faith tradition’s birth story.
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:
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.
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