The Fake & Fraudulent Prophets Around the President

When Christians Enter the Halls of Power, Who Will Tell the King the Truth? If you recognize any of these names, then you are at least familiar with a vague group of Charismatic Evangelical Christian...

September 4, 2026

BY Daniel Henderson

A vintage 1940s-style propaganda poster shows a heroic mother holding two infants in front of factory smokestacks, gears, and a rising sun. Large text at the top reads “Produce for the Nation,” with a bottom banner reading “Every Cradle a Factory.” The image uses a distressed cream, red, navy, and mustard color palette to evoke wartime home-front lithographs.

Fertility Isn’t Falling. Compliance Is.

The panic is everywhere. Elon Musk says low birth rates are “the biggest danger civilization faces.” JD Vance built a political identity around resenting “childless cat ladies.” T...

June 15, 2026

BY Stuart Delony

Permission for Now

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...

June 1, 2026

BY D.T. Bryant

The Hierophant Challenges the Unregulated use of AI

My family and I live in the Arizona desert where the water is scarce and the temperature rises to 110 degrees for successive months. There are two data centers less than a mile from our house. In Phoeni...

May 28, 2026

BY Gil Stafford

Bittersweet Reflections on Book Launch Day

Today is launch day for Saints, Sinners, and Clickers. I should feel nothing but excitement. And I do, at least in part. Writing a book, finishing it, and releasing it into the world is no small accompl...

April 28, 2026

BY Matthew Distefano

Mercy for MAGA? How to respond when they finally wake up.

In the last few weeks, we’ve seen several high-profile MAGA pundits begin to turn on Trump, and these are not obscure names. We’re talking Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Marjorie Taylor Green,...

April 22, 2026

BY Keith Giles

An American-themed crown incorporating the U.S. Capitol dome lies abandoned in the desert sand while a trail of footprints walks away toward the horizon. The image symbolizes the rejection of political domination as the path to righteousness, echoing the wilderness temptation narrative where Jesus refuses authority over the kingdoms of the world.

The Temptation Jesus Refused — and Christian Nationalism Accepted

Christian Nationalism promises to “take America back for God.” But when you place it next to the Gospels, an uncomfortable possibility appears: the movement looks less like the followers of Jesus and...

April 15, 2026

BY Stuart Delony

Listening to the Disabled God

Better to listen to the Disabled God than the Emperor who thinks he’s Jesus Christ. Erasma Ibuado-Reyes was deported to Mexico on March 7th. He has been married for twenty-five years and he and his w...

April 15, 2026

BY Gil Stafford

Living in a Science Fiction Novel

Lately, I have been feeling like I am living in a science fiction novel. The news about artificial intelligence (AI), including the speculation about when it will get to artificial general intelli...

April 10, 2026

BY Karen Tibbals

Happy Sadistic Friday (To Those Who Celebrate)

I live in a state whose leadership has little energy for justice and an apparent insatiable addiction to injustice. They are, to put it in terms the Apostle to the Gentiles might resonate with, “invento...

April 4, 2026

BY D.T. Bryant

“Mr. Nobody Against Putin” – A Cautionary Tale About Authoritarianism

Last Sunday, the film Mr. Nobody Against Putin won the Oscar for Best Feature Documentary. I watched it that afternoon before the Oscar presentations, and I was deeply struck by this story. It...

March 22, 2026

BY Daniel Henderson

Bombs, Bodies, and The Bible

by Desimber Rose Wattleton-Njie There is a dangerous pattern woven through history, of bodies willing to use the Bible, bodies willing to distort and weaponize faith for personal and political gain...

April 26, 2026

BY Desimber Rose

James Talarico: Flipping Tables & Flipping the Script

We will have to wait and see if Rep. James Talarico of Texas can turn his newfound celebrity into a Senate victory in that state in the fall. However, I believe that what Talarico is doing is charting a...

March 16, 2026

BY Daniel Henderson

War (with Iran), What Is It Good For?

For years, FIFA peace-prize winner Donald J. Trump sold himself as the anti-war candidate, mocking the architects of the Iraq War, ridiculing “forever wars,” and promising no more regime cha...

March 2, 2026

BY Matthew Distefano

Understanding Trump’s ICE Policy (It Isn’t About Crime)

Border Patrol agents shot and killed 37-year-old Alex Pretti in Minneapolis on January 24. Pretti was an intensive care nurse at a Veterans Affairs hospital. He was a U.S. citizen and a licensed conceal...

February 22, 2026

BY Daniel Henderson

The Real Work of Anti-Racism

In a world where conversations about race often become muddled by defensiveness and denial, I am reminded of an episode of Heretic Happy Hour from last year that delivers a much-needed jolt of clarity. ...

February 18, 2026

BY Matthew Distefano

A fervent crowd marches beneath a red “GOD OR NOTHING” banner, holding Bibles on sticks like protest signs. In the foreground, a woman in a “JESUS SAVES” shirt screams with zeal, flanked by angry men in clergy collars, suits, and MAGA-like hats. The dusky, smoke-filled sky adds to the ominous, cult-like atmosphere.

When the Bible Becomes State Propaganda

Once upon a time, the Bible was dangerous. It got people killed—not for reading it, but for living it. Prophets lost their heads. Disciples were hunted. Jesus got crucified by the state for disrupting th...

February 9, 2026

BY Stuart Delony

Trump Announces Ghislaine Maxwell as His 2028 Running Mate

WASHINGTON, DC — In a move one aide described as “bold, gutsy, and prototypical Trump,” Donald J. Trump has announced Ghislaine Maxwell as his vice presidential pick for 2028. “Look...

February 2, 2026

BY Matthew Distefano

Guess Which Group Gives Unqualified Support to ICE?

Have you wondered why Trump’s approval polling for his horrific and violent attacks against American cities via ICE raids and assaults remains at roughly one-third? Most sane, rational people immediatel...

February 1, 2026

BY Daniel Henderson

Offering Systemic Sacrifice

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...

January 31, 2026

BY D.T. Bryant

First they came for…

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...

January 30, 2026

BY Dillon Naber Cruz

We Are All Renee Good & Alex Pretti

What is it that allows someone like Kristi Noem to blame victims of an ICE agent’s crime, Renee Good and Alex Pretti, for her own death? In the most dismissive and unemotional fashion possible, Noem sim...

January 28, 2026

BY Daniel Henderson

Fighting the Algorithm

I just read a substack newsletter that helped me see how different the news feeds are that each of us gets. Here’s a link Because the poster is a member of a 12-step program, she and her partner conc...

February 27, 2026

BY Karen Tibbals

The Moral Bankruptcy of MAGA and Christofascists

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January 25, 2026

BY Dillon Naber Cruz

Rights on Paper, Violence in Practice

I’m taking a break from my deconstruction series this week, because there are moments when silence feels like complicity — and this is one of them. The constant churn of violence, lies, and manufacture...

January 25, 2026

BY Rev. Heather

Why Are We So Divided?

I’ve read various explanations of why we are so divided and they all have a bit of truth in them. Let me summarize what I think I have learned. First, we always have had and will continue to have a b...

March 16, 2026

BY Karen Tibbals

MAGA Is A Lie: Top Ten Reasons American Is NOT Great

Donald Trump created a political movement based on the promise that he, and only he, could make America great again. It was a lie, and he has not delivered on that promise in any measurable way. It was ...

January 19, 2026

BY Daniel Henderson

Art: The Soul of Resistance

The Party Did Not Sing During a Tuesday morning chapel service at my Private Christian High School, the Superintendent of our school led us in a reflection on Ecclesiastes 3, which you’ve most li...

January 17, 2026

BY D.T. Bryant

Low-angle view of a dark living room with a recliner in the foreground, a bare foot resting on the chair, crumpled tissues and a lotion bottle on the floor, and a television in the background displaying an apocalyptic scene of a burning city and figures rising into light.

Apocalypse Porn and the Death of Responsibility

Apocalypse porn trains people to confuse vigilance with virtue. When collapse becomes entertainment and prophecy becomes a dopamine hit, responsibility dies. You don’t prepare to heal a world you’re aro...

January 19, 2026

BY Stuart Delony

What Do Venezuela, White Supremacy & The Doctrine of Discovery Have In Common?

Is anyone really surprised that wealthy white men in the United States are encroaching on the sovereignty of a Latin American country with impunity to take their oil reserves? No, I’m sorry Mr. MAGA,...

January 15, 2026

BY Daniel Henderson

The Reality Show President Invades Venezuela

Once again, DJT has demonstrated that what matters to him is how things look, not how they work. This has been his MO in the presidency, and he was trained in this by starring in the Apprentice reality ...

March 16, 2026

BY Karen Tibbals

America needs an intervention

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...

January 10, 2026

BY Dillon Naber Cruz

Healthy Conflict

I think part of the problem in our relationships is that our expectations about relationships may be faulty. We expect there to be no conflict; we want everyone to agree on everything.That’s a fantasy. W...

January 5, 2026

BY Karen Tibbals

Here, at the End of the World…

Living here at the End of Days, I tell you the truth: that the Apocalypse has already begun. In these last days, two who were sleeping in the same bed at the President’s mansion will both be awakened...

January 5, 2026

BY Keith Giles

A surreal depiction of a church altar built entirely from rifles and bullets. Candles burn on top, their wax melting into streams of blood that pool below, casting a warm but unsettling light over the scene.

How to Break the Fever

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...

November 17, 2025

BY Stuart Delony

A Roadmap For Democratic Success in 2026 (If the Democrats are Listening)

It isn’t often that I can say, “I told you so.” Therefore, when the opportunity arises, I’m going to take it. I’ll start by referring to two columns I posted recently as a post-mortem on the 2024 ele...

December 29, 2025

BY Daniel Henderson

The Three Wise Men vs. Christian Nationalism

The story of the wise men is usually told as a sentimental Christmas scene: exotic travelers, mysterious gifts, a star in the sky. It feels harmless, almost decorative. But read closely, and the story M...

December 16, 2025

BY Jeremy Steele

Shaming Doesn’t Convince Anyone.

I see headlines all the time describing encounters that so and so “owns” so and so. Owning someone isn’t a win and it doesn’t convince anyone. In fact, these probably backfire. Shaming usually paralyzes...

December 18, 2025

BY Karen Tibbals

The Tattooed Theologian’s Year in Review

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December 22, 2025

BY Dillon Naber Cruz

What Jesus Would Say to Billionaires

If Jesus were walking around today, the ultra-wealthy would not find him comforting. He would not praise their philanthropy, applaud their foundations, or thank them for “job creation.” According to the...

December 16, 2025

BY Jeremy Steele

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December 19, 2025

BY Matthew Distefano

How Do You Know Whom to Trust?

In our polarized society different sides are getting our information from different sources and they just don’t agree. Plus, the “mainstream media” is declining, and people are starting to not pay atten...

February 28, 2026

BY Karen Tibbals

What Patriotism Really Means according to Romans

Patriotism, according to Evangelical American Christianity, is often reduced to obedience. Whoever holds power is assumed to be there because God put them there, and questioning that power is framed as ...

December 16, 2025

BY Jeremy Steele

Political Polarization

We all know the country is polarized but we may not be aware of one of the factors that are underlying polarization. To quote Brian McLaren in the Center for Action and Contemplation newsletter, t...

December 5, 2025

BY Karen Tibbals

The Original Live Nativity Was Subversive

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...

December 9, 2025

BY Jeremy Steele

How Can We Deal with Fake News?

If we’re trying to heal the politics in our country, one of our obstacles is fake news. We disagree about what’s true. As someone I know put it, we used to know it was true if Walter Cronkite said it, n...

December 12, 2025

BY Karen Tibbals

A young woman smiles brightly while flashing a peace sign in a selfie-style photo taken in front of the Shroud of Turin. She wears a denim jacket and has a glowing halo above her head. The sepia-toned image of Christ on the shroud is clearly visible behind her, giving the picture a surreal, satirical tone that mimics religious devotion with influencer energy.

Litmus Tests for Hollow Faith

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...

November 3, 2025

BY Stuart Delony

Is the United States A Christian Nation?…It Depends!

Is the United States a Christian Nation? Well, everyone seems to have an opinion on this, especially my Christian Supremacist friends who believe that somehow God chose the US out of all the nations in ...

November 30, 2025

BY Daniel Henderson

More Evidence That We Have a Reality Show President

I keep running into news stories that provide more evidence that we have a reality show president, that the only thing that matters is how things look. Trump’s meeting with Zohran Mandami was ...

December 5, 2025

BY Karen Tibbals

We’re Burning Christianity Down from the Inside (the stats don’t lie)

Every few months, a politician or pastor warns us that Christianity is under attack. They say secular culture is erasing faith, that prayer is being “banned,” that Starbucks hates Jesus because they cha...

November 20, 2025

BY Jeremy Steele

Weaponizing Identity – The MAGA Cynical War on Transgender People

Transgender Awareness Week runs from November 13 to 19. You probably didn’t know this since no government officials are rushing to recognize this event, and media companies are not participating in...

November 23, 2025

BY Daniel Henderson

Jesus Wouldn’t Survive a Republican or Democratic Primary

Every election season, both political parties try to claim Jesus. They talk as if he would stand on their stage, echo their slogans, and bless their strategy. They imagine a Jesus who endorses their ver...

November 18, 2025

BY Jeremy Steele

Why Does It Matter If We Have a Reality Show President?

Last week I wrote about our current president being a reality show president. When I first started thinking about this, I was thinking that approval ratings were the metric that a Reality Show Pres...

February 28, 2026

BY Karen Tibbals

Dear US Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem

Dear Secretary Noem, I hope this letter finds you well, perhaps out on the prairie practicing your famously compassionate approach to animal stewardship. I recently finished your deeply moving, Pulit...

November 17, 2025

BY Matthew Distefano

Privilege, Power, Patriarchy – Epstein is the Rule, Not The Exception

We feign shock and surprise at the blatant and reprehensible actions of Jeffrey Epstein for his free lance abuse of young women and the complicity of those around him, including President Donald Trump. ...

November 16, 2025

BY Daniel Henderson

A satirical Renaissance-style painting showing Donald Trump and RFK Jr. dressed as cardinals in an inquisition chamber, condemning a scientist in a lab coat. A chalkboard beside them displays climate and vaccine symbols crossed out in red, symbolizing science denial.

The New Inquisition: Trump’s War on Science

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...

November 3, 2025

BY Stuart Delony

“The Power of the Powerless” – How to Unravel an Authoritarian Regime

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...

November 11, 2025

BY Daniel Henderson

The Reality Show President

The most successful thing our current president did before running for president was star in The Apprentice for 14 seasons. I think those were formative years for him, because they were so successful. I...

November 18, 2025

BY Karen Tibbals

A photograph features a red vintage-style twin-bell alarm clock on a wooden nightstand. The clock face is labeled with the words "DEMOCRACY," "JUSTICE," and "FREEDOM" instead of numbers. A person’s hand hovers above the snooze button, about to silence the alarm.

Right Here, Right Now: From Waking Up to Forgetting

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...

November 3, 2025

BY Stuart Delony

The American Dream Needs Hospice Care

I don’t mean this as hyperbole or some dramatic act of rebellion. I mean it in the same way we talk about a beloved relative who’s lived a long, full life, and whose body simply can’t keep up anymore. T...

November 3, 2025

BY Keith Giles

Trump In Search of an Insurrection

“We have an insurrection act for a reason. If I had to enact it I would do that,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office, adding, “if people were being killed and courts were holding us up or governors...

November 3, 2025

BY Daniel Henderson

What Trump Is Doing To The White House Is A Criminal Act

For the past 10 months, Donald Trump has been demolishing the Federal government. He has systematically torn down systems of checks and balances, he has extinguished oversight functions within the execu...

October 30, 2025

BY Daniel Henderson

Why We Can’t Just Get a National Divorce

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...

October 28, 2025

BY Claire Vane

Jesus: The Radical Left Lunatic

C.S. Lewis once said that Jesus was either a liar, a lunatic, or Lord. But maybe he forgot a fourth option, the one that would make the most sense to the MAGA crowd: Jesus the Radical Left Lunatic. Beca...

October 23, 2025

BY Matthew Distefano

A child’s small hand reaches into a brass offering plate filled with dollar bills and envelopes, as two adult hands hold the plate. The scene is dimly lit, with shadows falling across the wooden pews in the background, creating a quiet and tense atmosphere.

Sticker Shock

Why Secular Kids Might Be More Christlike Than Church Kids For years, we’ve been told that religion is the bedrock of morality. Without Sunday School, veggie-themed Bible cartoons, and the looming th...

September 25, 2025

BY Stuart Delony

Anxiety “Disorders” in the Apocalypse

The slow-burn apocalypse that we’re living through sure has come with a lot of things to be anxious about. The unending loop of catastrophic national and global headlines is occupying both my news...

October 17, 2025

BY Anna Clark Miller

Trump’s Don Quixote Syndrome

Trump and Don Quixote Alonso Quijano, an aging gentleman, decides to become the knight Don Quixote and defends honor and justice in the world. He embarks on numerous adventures, mistaking windmills f...

October 15, 2025

BY Daniel Henderson

Navigating Political Discussions with Fair Fighting

In today’s tense political climate, finding a way to have respectful, productive conversations about politics can feel nearly impossible. While conflict is an inevitable part of life, the principl...

October 9, 2025

BY Anna Clark Miller

Foolishness & Stupidity: Militarizing American Cities – A Lesson On How To Increase Crime and Violence

Donald Trump, in complete foolishness and stupidity, believes that deploying US troops into major cities will help reduce crime. It will not. In fact, the militarization of urban areas will predictably ...

October 7, 2025

BY Daniel Henderson

Opinion: Oh No… I Think I Might Be Woke

(This is a guest piece by J.C. Whiteman, author of the book Home of the Saved. For years I’ve dedicated my life to fighting the scourge of wokeness. I’ve written angry Facebook posts, yelled at t...

October 3, 2025

BY Matthew Distefano

Attacks on Free Speech? We’ve Been Down This Road Before – We Know What To Do

Attacks on freedom of speech? We’ve been down this road before. In 1800, James Callender, a political journalist who wrote against the Federalist Party and figures like Alexander Hamilton and Preside...

October 3, 2025

BY Daniel Henderson

Its Time To Look At Ourselves In the Mirror – What If This Is Who We Are

Today was another day in American life and over 300 people were shot (based on averages) and just over 100 of them died, and around 22 of them were children…this happens every damn day in this country. ...

September 18, 2025

BY Daniel Henderson

When Words Kill

We live in a time where words travel faster than ever. A single statement made on television or online can ripple through society with consequences we can’t always predict—or worse, consequences we can ...

September 22, 2025

BY Rev. Heather

Photorealistic image of an older white man in a suit and glasses, resembling televangelist Jim Bakker, standing beside bold white text that reads “Jim Bakker’s Legacy of Shit” on a muted blue-gray background.

Jim Bakker and the Church of Eternal Grift

I remember watching my mom stare at the TV, transfixed by The PTL Club. Her eyes glowed like she was catching a glimpse of heaven through the pastel suits and pancake makeup. Jim Bakker—teeth gleaming, ...

August 19, 2025

BY Stuart Delony

Perhaps Charlie Kirk Is A Victim of His Own Ideology

Was Charlie Kirk, to some degree, a victim of his own ideology? When a person preaches extreme gun rights that allow the absolute proliferation of guns that we currently have in the United States, and w...

September 14, 2025

BY Daniel Henderson

We Need to Talk about Charlie Kirk (Especially if You’re a Christian)

We need to talk about Charlie Kirk, especially if you’re a Christian. And what I’ve got to say is probably not what you’re expecting. Because this isn’t about defending him. And it’s not about tearing h...

September 12, 2025

BY Jeremy Steele

Grieving Without The Script

The Church and the Complexity of Grief I was going to write about something different this week, but in light of recent events I feel compelled to speak from the heart. The church, for all its ...

September 12, 2025

BY Rev. Heather

A digital painting inspired by the Death of Superman comic cover. A torn red cape hangs like a flag from a leaning black pole, set against a desolate urban church. The sky is overcast and gray. In the background, a cracked sign on the church wall reads “HOPE LIVES HERE,” with some letters beginning to fall off. Stained glass is shattered, and the ground is littered with rubble. The mood is somber and apocalyptic, evoking the death of idealism and faith.

Superman’s Dead. And Hope Died with Him.

Once upon a time, we believed in things. We believed in truth. We believed in justice. We believed in heroes—ones who didn’t need branding deals or side hustles to justify their capes. But that world’s ...

August 28, 2025

BY Stuart Delony

DeSantis Ends Rabies Vaccine Mandate, Says Florida Dogs Can “Do Their Own Research”

Tallahassee, FL— In a move critics are calling “peak Florida,” Governor Ron DeSantis announced today that the Florida Department of Health will eliminate rabies vaccine mandates for dogs, ci...

September 10, 2025

BY Matthew Distefano

Dealing with Barriers

I’ve often heard people say that they thought they could convince the other person if the person didn’t believe a certain thing. They think the answer is to deal with the barrier. Barriers are hard t...

February 28, 2026

BY Karen Tibbals

Guns, and The Idolatry Of Inaction

Another school shooting has happened. Another community is shattered. More children are gone, and more families will never be the same. And once again, I hear the same tired chorus of responses from ma...

September 3, 2025

BY Rev. Heather

It Is Unethical Not to Try to Understand the Other Person

Today, people seem to think they must speak up if they feel that something violates their values. I associate that with a book and a college course called Giving Voice to Values, which has trained ...

February 28, 2026

BY Karen Tibbals

A Declaration of Independence from the Abuses of Donald J. Trump

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...

September 1, 2025

BY Daniel Henderson

And a Child Shall Judge Them

My fight or flight response leans heavily toward fight. It’s not usually a “come at you immediately” kind of fight, but one that takes a step back in order to plan how to “come at you” later. My own chi...

January 31, 2026

BY D.T. Bryant

Close-up of a red Swiss Army knife resting on a wooden church pew, with several blades opened upward and “Matthew 19” engraved on the side.

Jesus Was Talking About Divorce, Not Your Gay Neighbors

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...

August 19, 2025

BY Stuart Delony

Ultimatums Don’t Work

In a conservative Facebook group, a woman posted a picture of text she got from her daughter, a lesbian. In it, her daughter says she won’t talk to her again if she votes for Trump because he’s going to...

February 28, 2026

BY Karen Tibbals

Stephen Miller – The Most Dangerous Person in Washington (besides Trump)

So, who is this Stephen Miller guy? Miller is one of the advisors from Trump 1.0 who made it to Trump 2.0 without going to jail or having Trump turn on him. That is an accomplishment of sorts dependi...

August 24, 2025

BY Daniel Henderson

Cartoon illustration in the style of Mad Magazine showing two older, overweight men smiling in a small clawfoot bathtub overflowing with rubber duckies labeled “AP History.” The scene is exaggerated and humorous, parodying historical revisionism.

PragerU, Glenn Beck, and the History That Never Was

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...

August 19, 2025

BY Stuart Delony

Jesus Admits First Visit Was a Mistake, Now Enforces Immigration Law

El Paso, TX — In a development theologians are calling “the biggest mea culpa in salvation history,” Jesus Christ has returned to Earth—specifically to the United States—and immediately issued a formal ...

August 20, 2025

BY Matthew Distefano

Overcoming Authoritarian Strongmen

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...

August 19, 2025

BY Daniel Henderson

I Want to Convince Them That I Am Right and Mend the Political Divide

I know you probably think you are right. We may have evidence that we are right. Most of us do. We talk to our friends, and they reinforce our feelings of being right. But, as I recently heard from a th...

August 19, 2025

BY Karen Tibbals

Join the Subway Sandwich Protest

You’ve probably heard about the man in Washington, D.C., who threw a foot-long sandwich at police in protest of the recent declaration of martial law and federalization of D.C. police in spite of ...

August 15, 2025

BY Keith Giles

Setting Realistic Expectations

As I have been working ideas for how to bridge the political divide, I realize that we need to be realistic in our expectations. We can’t expect to succeed the first time we try, because change is hard....

February 28, 2026

BY Karen Tibbals

Call It What It Is—Trump Is a Racist (The Ideology of Whiteness Is Alive and Well)

I don’t like calling people racist…but let’s call this what it is…the Trump Administration is the most racist in modern American history. To be sure, Trump isn’t the only racist president we have had. O...

August 19, 2025

BY Daniel Henderson

A man resembling Jesus, wearing a red headband and leg warmers, takes a gym selfie with a peace sign, dressed like an influencer in a tank top.

Jesus Wept — But Only After Leg Day

“Less Prozac, more protein.” That’s the sermon now. Not from a pulpit, but from the stage of the Young Women’s Leadership Summit — a Turning Point USA shindig for trad-curious TikTok evangelicals trying...

August 19, 2025

BY Stuart Delony

Everything Is Scrambled; The World Is Topsy Turvy

I had a long career in market research, I was used to deciphering and describing human behavior. But politics baffled me. Then I read The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt and I finally understood. It wa...

February 28, 2026

BY Karen Tibbals

A New Tennessee Law Allows Doctors to Refuse Care to Unmarried Pregnant Women

Noam Chomsky & David Brooks Agree – This is a recipe for societal collapse! A MAGA-Christian Beattitudes Now when MAGA-Jesus saw the crowds, he went up on a mountainside and sat dow...

August 3, 2025

BY Daniel Henderson

Dealing with Complexity, Manipulation and Trust

The world is complex, and issues are complex. Although they have always been complex, we haven’t always engaged with that complexity on any level of detail. Instead, we’ve tended to accept simple narrat...

October 10, 2025

BY Karen Tibbals

Stumbling Onto A Scene of Raw Humanity – A Serendipitous Experience in Idaho

A few weeks ago I stumbled onto a scene of community-wide grief, mourning, sorrow, and solidarity like I have seldom ever experienced. The scene was an accident of circumstance on my part. I had no idea...

October 10, 2025

BY Daniel Henderson

It Is Unethical Not to Try to Understand the Other Person

Today, people seem to think they must speak up if they feel that something violates their values. I associate that with a book and a college course called Giving Voice to Values, which has trained ...

October 10, 2025

BY Karen Tibbals

A man in a suit with a retro television for a head holds a Bible in one hand and a dollar bill in the other, symbolizing the collision of media, religion, and money in modern culture.

Flat Top Nation: How We Sold Our Souls to the Screen

“Flat top intervention / Bringing home the new invention / See it there in pieces on the ground…” The Goo Goo Dolls may not be topping the charts anymore, but “Flat Top” nailed something we still haven’...

July 18, 2025

BY Stuart Delony

What If Mass Deportation Isn’t the Goal – 21st Century Convict Leasing

The United States Loves to Incarcerate People This is more than an immigration and deportation story today. It is a story about how the United States has repeatedly used the machinery of the state to...

July 22, 2025

BY Daniel Henderson

No, I will not shut up Donald

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...

July 22, 2025

BY Dillon Naber Cruz

See the Other as a Whole Person

When we are focusing on how we disagree with someone, we often limit our thinking about that person to just the part we disagree with. The topic we are concerned about becomes the only thing we think ab...

October 10, 2025

BY Karen Tibbals

A dimly lit prison cell floor with a twisted orange fabric looped on the ground, casting shadows beneath a barred window and simple bench

The Shortest Distance Between a Truth and a Lie

For years, the Epstein scandal has been the conspiracy theorist’s holy grail—a grotesque mix of wealth, sex crimes, and elite connections that promised to expose the rot at the top. MAGA world clung to ...

July 24, 2025

BY Stuart Delony

Sex, Money, and Cruelty—They NEVER Cared About Children!

The Lies of the Right!!! I am living in the hope that there is an actual hell for people who are lying about their care and concern for children. Especially the ones who use children for sex, risk ch...

July 18, 2025

BY Angela Parker

The Cross and the Crown: How the Transnational Network of Christian Nationalists Threatens the Global Order

Sarah Riccardi-Swartz, an assistant professor of religion and anthropology at Northeastern University, has led a team of researchers to understand American evangelical support for Russian dict...

October 10, 2025

BY Daniel Henderson

The Saddest Thing About Trump’s Superman Post

This week the White House posted a meme with Donald Trump’s head replacing the actor playing Superman in the new film of the same name. The post was altered to read: THE SYMBOL OF HOPE. TRUTH. JUS...

July 18, 2025

BY Keith Giles

A stained-glass window close-up of Tupac Shakur depicted in a traditional religious art style. He appears solemn and contemplative, surrounded by colorful geometric patterns and radiant light, echoing the aesthetic of a church window.

The Prophet Your Pastor Warned You About

You won’t find Tupac Shakur in your church’s stained-glass window collection. No halo. No white robes. No sanitized, King James-approved soundbites. He swore too much, smoked too often, and wasn’t inter...

July 18, 2025

BY Stuart Delony

When A Home Becomes A Haven

A Story of Family, Struggle, and an Unforgiving Economy Life has a way of shifting without warning. One moment, things feel stable—and the next, everything changes. Recently, my family experienced one ...

July 18, 2025

BY Rev. Heather

Interfaith Prayer for Justice

The World is on Fire. Regardless of which religion or non-religion you practice, centering ourselves on our desires and intentions for justice make a difference in our life and perspective. When we ...

July 18, 2025

BY Jeremy Steele

The Opposite of a Truth May Also Be True

As someone trained in analytical thinking, I would sometimes find information that didn’t fit into what I thought was true, that didn’t fit into the narrative I had been developing, given the data I had...

July 18, 2025

BY Karen Tibbals

Recognizing Mind Control Tactics: Lifton’s Eight Criteria for Thought Reform

The human mind is powerful and complex, capable of incredible creativity, critical thinking, and independent thought. Despite our capacity for intellectual freedom, history is full of examples of groups...

July 18, 2025

BY Anna Clark Miller

The Garden Tomb Is Fake—and That’s Why American Christianity Is Dying

I hate to break it to you, but that peaceful little garden where you sang “Because He Lives” on your Israel trip? Jesus wasn’t buried there. I know it feels right. The birds are chirping,...

July 18, 2025

BY Jeremy Steele

The GOP’s Legislative Civil War Against Humanity -Trump’s Budget Means We Are No Longer Our Brother’s Keeper

A clever lawyer (are there any other kind?) once asked Jesus, “What is the greatest commandment?” Jesus responded that one should love God with all their heart and show that love for God by loving their...

July 18, 2025

BY Daniel Henderson

White House to Celebrate America’s 250th Birthday with Live “American Squid Game” in East Wing

Washington, DC — In honor of America’s 250th birthday, the White House has announced plans to convert the East Wing into a fully operational “American Squid Game” arena, where 456 lucky detainees from t...

July 18, 2025

BY Matthew Distefano

MAGA Christians Launch Prayer Campaign to Resurrect Jeffrey Epstein for 2028 VP Slot

Washington, DC—In a shocking but somehow completely predictable twist, a coalition of MAGA-aligned Christians have launched a nationwide prayer initiative demanding that God resurrect the late financier...

July 18, 2025

BY Matthew Distefano

What Team Are You On?

Because our society is so polarized, many of us have chosen a side. (That’s a tautology.) It’s hard not to choose. The media you watch, the people you hang out with, all of that contributes to which sid...

June 29, 2025

BY Karen Tibbals

The Republican Party is a Pro-Death Party

Joni Ernst Simply Told The Truth I promise I won’t spend my whole column talking about Joni Ernst’s gaffe…by now, if you can read, you know what she said and how offensive and elitist it was. What I ...

July 2, 2025

BY Daniel Henderson

If It Feels Like We Are In A War, Its Because We Are

A Second Civil War Has Already Begun Consider….just this year On June 19, Trenton Abston allegedly stalked and attempted to confront and alledgedly kidnap Memphis Mayor Paul Young at his home with...

July 1, 2025

BY Daniel Henderson

“I Could Stand in the Middle of Fifth Avenue…”: A MAGA Loyalty Quiz

Back in 2016, Donald Trump told us the truth: “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters.” At the time, the media laughed. Critics scoffed. A...

June 27, 2025

BY Matthew Distefano

Candace Owens Is “Embarrassed” by Trump—But Why Now?

So, Candace Owens is suddenly “embarrassed” for supporting Donald Trump. Well, la-dee-fucking-da. Super inspiring. But I’ve got one burning question and it’s not rhetorical. Why now? Why now, w...

June 27, 2025

BY Matthew Distefano

A missile with Donald Trump's signature comb-over hairstyle flies through the sky. A glowing Holy Bible is strapped to its side, symbolizing the fusion of religion and militarism. The background shows a desolate, war-tinted landscape under dramatic clouds.

God, Guns, and Grievance

In a four-minute address that managed to mix divine flattery with military flexing, Donald Trump proved once again that he’s not just playing president—he’s auditioning for the role of America’s end-tim...

June 26, 2025

BY Stuart Delony

Resisting Political Gaslighting

If you spend much time on social media, you’ve likely encountered the pop-psychology term, “gaslighting”. Despite the self-help community’s overuse of this non-technical term, it’s a v...

June 25, 2025

BY Anna Clark Miller

Is It Possible to Heal Our Political Divides?

As I have been working with these concepts, I realize that we need to be realistic in our expectations. We can’t expect to succeed the first time we try, because change is hard. Most people who set New ...

June 14, 2025

BY Karen Tibbals

Interior of a gothic-style church repurposed as a classroom, with stained glass windows, chandeliers, and wooden desks replacing pews. A chalkboard at the altar reads “Daily Prayer Period” as a suited teacher stands at the front holding a book.

When School Prayer Becomes a Stage Act

Say it with me now: You can pray anywhere. Always could. Even in school. Even in Texas. That’s the thing about prayer—it doesn’t need permission. No one can stop your thoughts, your whispers, your pleas...

June 3, 2025

BY Stuart Delony

Is There Such Thing as Healthy Conflict in a Relationship?

I think part of the problem in our relationships is that our expectations about relationships may be faulty. We expect there to be no conflict; we want everyone to agree on everything. That’s a fanta...

June 18, 2025

BY Karen Tibbals

Anti-Racist Work Needs All Hands on Deck!

Rep. Hortman’s Body Was “On The Line”—Lessons in Anti-Racist Work

When people ask me about allyship these days, my response is that the only ally I want is someone who will put their body on the line and nothing else. I am tired of fake bystanders who do nothing. I am...

July 27, 2025

BY Angela Parker

Jesus Wasn’t a Colonizer: Christianity Didn’t Begin in Europe or Arrive in Africa on a Slave Ship

Let me be as clear as I can, right from the jump: Christianity did not arrive in Africa via white Protestant or Catholic missionaries. It didn’t arrive shackled to the sails of slave ships. It wasn’t ha...

June 14, 2025

BY Matthew Distefano

Jesus Topples Christian Nationalism

Jesus Undermines Christian Nationalism Repeat after me: Christian nationalism is not Christian. Look, I hate to burst your bubble if you’re a fundamentalist (ok, no, I don’t). Bu...

June 14, 2025

BY Jeremy Steele

Illustration of a grim-faced Uncle Sam with the likeness of RFK Jr., wearing a traditional top hat. A red worm emerges from his right ear, evoking decay or parasitism. The style mimics vintage propaganda posters with a distressed paper background.

How the Christian Right Found Jesus in a Moon Shrine

Once upon a time, folks like Casey Means were the devil’s poster children—New Age kooks destined for hellfire and parental warning pamphlets. She builds shrines, talks to trees, and believes the future ...

June 25, 2025

BY Stuart Delony

When the State Becomes the Thief in the Night

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 ...

June 11, 2025

BY Paul Swearengin

How We See Our Options for Relationships

We think we have limited options. We can censor ourselves, have a superficial relationship without talking about the issues we care about, we can keep fighting, or we can sever the relationship. I ca...

June 14, 2025

BY Karen Tibbals

Spiritual Bypassing in Times of Crisis

“Everything happens for a reason.” “God’s in control.” “We’ll never be given more than we can handle.” These phrases have something important in ...

June 10, 2025

BY Anna Clark Miller

A vintage 1950s-style advertisement featuring a blonde woman in a modest blue dress with eyes closed, basking in a radiant glow. She is flanked by bold retro lettering that reads “Jesus Glow: America’s #1 Faith-Based Beauty Serum.” A stylized bottle of the product sits beside her. The design mimics classic beauty ads, blending religious iconography with influencer-style marketing.

Glow Up for God: TikTok’s New Gospel of Good Looks

Once upon a time, salvation was about the soul. Now it’s about the skin. Welcome to the era of the “Jesus Glow,” the hottest new holiness trend sweeping TikTok—where conversion comes with contour, sa...

June 6, 2025

BY Stuart Delony

A Call to Duty: Answering the President’s Moral Example

Matthew J. DiStefano[Email: matthew@quoir.com][Website: https://thequollective.com/author/matt-distefano/] June 9, 2025 To Whom It May Concern, I am writing to express my enthusiastic desire to...

June 5, 2025

BY Matthew Distefano

A vintage-style wedding cake topper of a bride and groom, each holding signs labeled "CHURCH" and "STATE," stands atop a white cake with the U.S. Supreme Court building blurred in the background.

When Church and State Swipe Right

Once upon a time, the phrase “separation of church and state” meant something. It was the constitutional speed bump that kept our country from careening into theocracy. But in the year of our Lord and L...

June 3, 2025

BY Stuart Delony

Our Lives Are Defined by Our Relationships, Even Our Political Lives

Relationships are all about choices. If you want to mend a relationship—because it’s a relationship that means something to you and you choose to use your energy that way—this column has tips to help yo...

June 14, 2025

BY Karen Tibbals

When Compassion Breaks You Open

I Wear My Heart on My Sleeve And maybe you do too. No truer statement could be said about me. I woke up just last week, poured my coffee, and stepped onto the porch to check the day’s messages and not...

June 2, 2025

BY Rev. Heather

The Real Jesus Was Nonviolent (And His Followers Are Too)

Like it or not, Jesus was nonviolent. I don’t mean symbolically, or selectively, or sometimes. I mean totally, radically, unflinchingly committed to a way of love that refused to pick up the sword—even ...

June 2, 2025

BY Keith Giles

Texas Bans Weed But Not Your AR-15: The Hypocrisy is as Thick as the Smoke They’re Trying to Criminalize

Ah, Texas. The land of cowboy hats, big oil, bigger egos, and, let’s be honest, some of the most embarrassingly backward legislation this side of the Rio Grande. If you haven’t heard the latest, a...

May 29, 2025

BY Matthew Distefano

Three Ways to Turn Chaos into Something (Slightly) Less Terrible

Or: How to Stop Doomscrolling and Start Doing Something Useful Welcome to another installment of “Earth is Still on Fire and No One’s in Charge.” Let’s talk survival skills — not the kind that requ...

June 3, 2025

BY Stuart Delony

Evangelicals — Jesus Will Be at Pride. And So Will You.

I get it, you’ve believed that being gay is a sin for a long time. You’ve believed that all gay people are going to hell and all the other things fundamentalist pastors have told you about them. But thi...

October 10, 2025

BY Jeremy Steele

Before We Can Solve Our Political Divide, We Need to Heal Our Own Trauma First

This is the first step in working on healing our country, toward mending fractured relationships, to heal ourselves first. I bet you have been traumatized by something. It might be from your family o...

June 14, 2025

BY Karen Tibbals

Overcoming Polarization

Political polarization is at an all-time high in the United States. This deepening divide is being fueled by online echo-chambers, biased news networks, and antisocial rhetoric that demonizes empathy. U...

June 2, 2025

BY Anna Clark Miller

How Can You Call Fraud “Big and Beautiful?”

“Let’s say Social Security didn’t send out their checks. . . this month. . .My mother-in-law, who is 94 years old. . .she wouldn’t call and complain. She just wouldn’t. She would just think that somethi...

May 23, 2025

BY Angela Parker

America, Revelation, and the Stench of Blood

Let’s get something out of the way: The Book of Revelation was written about the Roman Empire in the first century. It’s not about America, the U.N., or any other modern agency or government. Sorr...

May 22, 2025

BY Matthew Distefano

A lone king surrounded by matching pawns on a worn chessboard—symbolizing the purge of military leadership and rise of obedient loyalists

What Comes After the Generals Are Gone?

When loyalty trumps leadership, the Constitution isn’t far behind. You may have missed it. Between the never-ending election circus and whatever viral outrage the algorithm’s pushing (book bans, drag...

May 21, 2025

BY Stuart Delony

The Stories of Fractured Relationships

I’ve been collecting stories about relationships that have had the fabric of their lives torn by political polarization. The relationships affected range from parents and adult children to siblings, in-...

May 6, 2025

BY Karen Tibbals

Let It Burn

Why the Fall of Nottoway Plantation Feels Like Justice Tears and cheers rang out last week as the historic Nottoway Plantation was engulfed in flames. What some are mourning as the loss of a landmark...

May 22, 2025

BY Rev. Heather

America: Arsonist and Firefighter

In the documentary, “Dirty Wars”, author and investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill makes a comment about America’s schizophrenic foreign policy after learning that our nation’s drone policy has execut...

May 17, 2025

BY Keith Giles

When Fiction Becomes Policy: The Real-Life Handmaid’s Tale of Adrianna Smith

A young woman is declared brain dead—but Georgia law refuses to let her rest. Her body remains on life support, not for her, but for the fetus she carries. The Handmaid’s Tale was just a story, right...

May 17, 2025

BY Rev. Heather

The Religion of Politics

How Evangelicalism Trained Me to Vote Against My Neighbor—and What I’m Doing Differently Now It was 1991 and I was just a 12-year-old kid in school. We were studying history at the time, and Bill Cli...

May 17, 2025

BY Rev. Heather

Three Holy Wars

THREE HOLY WARS “Christians could never slay their enemies. For the more that kings, rulers, and peoples have persecuted them everywhere, the more Christians have increased in number and gr...

May 13, 2025

BY Keith Giles

Yes, I Know Trump Is Trolling Us. That’s Not the Point.

Let me say this right out of the gate: Yes, I’m fully aware that Donald Trump posted an AI-generated image of himself as the Pope.Yes, I know that on May the 4th, no less, he also portrayed himself ...

May 11, 2025

BY Matthew Distefano

Cutting People Out of Your Life Doesn’t Help Solve Our Political Divide

Cutting people out of your life doesn’t help solve our political divide. Our country is polarized both in terms of politics and religion. Our media are divided, and so are our cities, our homes, our ...

May 6, 2025

BY Karen Tibbals

The Ethics of Deporting Immigrants: Making Decisions Ahead of Fear and Propaganda

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...

June 13, 2025

BY Paul Swearengin

This Is The Truth Grenade

Ten years ago, I was a rebel. I was radicalized by the Sermon on the Mount, Liberation Theology, Social Justice activists, and the words of Shane Claiborne, David Ruis, Dr. Scott Bartchy, Walter Wink, D...

May 13, 2025

BY Keith Giles

A Pope for the People, Not the Power-Hungry

A New Pope Has Been Chosen—And Evangelicals Are Already Big Mad The bells rang out from St. Peter’s Basilica, signaling a moment of transition, of hope, of change. A new pope has been chosen. B...

May 12, 2025

BY Rev. Heather

Dear American Evangelicals: Your Favorite Politicians Wouldn’t Have Even Liked Jesus

You are sucking at this. (and I did too). There’s something you need to hear, and it’s going to sting a little. Your favorite politicians? The ones you post memes about. The ones you claim are def...

May 1, 2025

BY Jeremy Steele

Preserving Democracy in the Face of Fascism: A Call to Action

As we face an uncertain future in the United States, a recent episode of the Heretic Happy Hour podcast delved into the troubling implications of the incoming administration and how individual...

May 6, 2025

BY Matthew Distefano

A New Year, Old Battles: Reflecting on America’s Challenges in 2025

As the calendar flips to a new year, we often carry with us the hope for fresh starts. Yet, if the recent news is any indicator, the weight of our unresolved societal struggles is heavier than ever. Fro...

May 6, 2025

BY Matthew Distefano