It’s graduation season and high school seniors all over the country are leaving Last Will and Testaments in their school newspapers. I don’t remember all of the things I left behind, but I do remember m...

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Donald Trump Is An Abusive Person Politics today feels more like an emotional rollercoaster than a civic debate. Each day brings a new insult, a new enemy, or a new claim that defies reality. People ...

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In a 1970 letter to Angela Davis, James Baldwin observed how Americans measure safety in “chains and corpses.” In the same letter, Baldwin wrote of the militant who implement deplorable, obscene, mock-s...

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Pastor Martin Niemöller’s famous poem’s relevance has increased since the second iteration of the Trump regime began. In America, first they came for the LGBTQIA community and immigrants, wh...

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A malignant narcissist remains the President of the United States. He only ran for president to keep from being prosecuted for his lifetime of criminal activity which includes treason, illegally holding...

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Every few decades, American Christians discover—again—that the world is secretly run by unspeakable evil. Children are being harmed. Elites are hiding the truth. Institutions can’t be trusted. Only a sm...

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America is burning with a fever we keep pretending is just a seasonal bug. It’s not. It’s terminal. Violence isn’t an anomaly in this country—it’s the liturgy. Guns are our sacrament. Blood is our offeri...

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People believe God can part seas, raise the dead, and multiply fish—but tarot cards? Nonsense. Energy healing? Witchcraft. Somehow divine magic gets the glossy “miracle” label while everything else is d...

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Jim Henson shouldn’t have died the way he did. In 1990, strep and pneumonia were treatable. But when Henson finally went to the hospital, the infection had ravaged his body. By the time doctors saw him, ...

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The original live nativity happened 700 years ago on Christmas Eve. It has nothing to do with the spectacles put on by megachurches and very little to do with the children dressed in robes outside of Ci...

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Some people chase miracles. Others chase merch. Either way, modern Christianity has mastered the art of skipping the hard parts. Faith is supposed to be about love, justice, mercy, and inconvenient trans...

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The Renaissance had the church. We have Trump. Both treated truth like a threat, not a tool. In the 1600s, Galileo peered through a telescope and dared to suggest the earth wasn’t the center of the unive...

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Just recently, I had a conversation with a friend who is a strong supporter of Donald Trump. We are still friends and speak civilly to one another, so that is a plus. I mentioned to this person that Tru...

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When Jesus Jones sang “Right Here, Right Now” in 1990, the world was shaking off a nightmare. The Berlin Wall was rubble, Mandela walked free, the Cold War ended without a mushroom cloud. For...

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The concept of a “national divorce,” has gained prominence in recent years as a shorthand for mass state secession from the United States. Popularized by political figures such as Representa...

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What do Tibetan monks, American pastors, and state-sponsored Chinese bureaucrats have in common? They all want control of your soul—and they’re not above using toddler reincarnation, biblical foot...

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Donald Trump has made his intentions clear. He wants to establish a dictatorship in the United States. Using the military to patrol cities, ignoring the Constitution, and using his office for personal g...

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Evangelicals love Matthew 19 like it’s their theological Swiss Army knife. Divorce? Same-sex marriage? Gender roles? Complementarian manifestos? Just slap a Genesis quote on it and call it “biblical.” I...

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History is dangerous. Not because it tells us where we’ve been, but because it has the audacity to remind us who we really are. That’s why Glenn Beck and PragerU are teaming up to produce their own AP H...

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I just finished reading Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present by Ruth Ben-Ghiat. Here is how the book starts in the Introduction: OURS IS THE AGE OF THE STRONGMAN, of heads of state like Berl...

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Trigger warning: Sexual assault, sex trafficking When Simon the Pharisee invited Jesus to dine with him in Luke’s gospel the writer tells the reader that a sinful woman showed up unannounced to...

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Masculinity Detox: You Were Always Enough By Unconventional Pastor Paul The image of “manliness” many of us inherited was a John Wayne type – the swaggering, emotionless cowboy. ...

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Would Jesus, alive in 2025 America, support the works of Donald Trump’s ICE officers grabbing honest, quiet, hard-working people off the street and disappearing them to… wherever? Not a chance ...

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On a sweltering June day in Central California, high schoolers gathered for the California State High School Track and Field Championships. There was laughter, selfies, hugs – just kids being kids...

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Is a deported person a terrorist? Or ‘father of the year?’ It actually doesn’t matter in the eyes of the law and it shouldn’t matter to any ethical person. Every human in America...

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