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June 2024

June 03, 2024

The Confederacy was Racist Christian Nationalists

June 3 is a state holiday in Alabama to honor the birthday of traitor Jefferson...

March 2024

March 30, 2024

Aaron Sorkin’s To Kill a Mockingbird a timeless story

Aaron Sorkin’s stage adaptation of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is a timeless, touching...

February 2024

February 01, 2024

The Day the Music Died: Feb. 3, 1959

Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and the Big Bopper died in a plane crash, Feb. 3,...

November 2023

November 05, 2023

5 Examples of Why House Speaker Mike Johnson isn’t a Christian

“The House speaker’s worldview is dictated by the Bible,” read the New York Times headline...

September 2023

September 02, 2023

The Day I Met Jimmy Buffett

“Jimmy Buffett’s here.” I knew he was playing golf that day, that’s why I was...

July 2023

July 02, 2023

The Slow Suffocation of Civil Rights in the United States

On July 2, 1964, President Lyndon Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act of...

March 2023

March 11, 2023

America’s Pastime is Just Weeks Away

Here in the United States, America’s pastime is warming up again. Baseball’s ageless boys of...

February 2023

February 22, 2023

The Day My Daughter Met President Jimmy Carter

Click here for part one – The time I spoke with former President Jimmy Carter...

February 19, 2023

The Day I Talked with Richard Belzer

Detective John Munch has died. He was 78. Comedian Richard Belzer played Munch from the...

July 2022

July 06, 2022

Angry White Men

Another mass shooting and another angry, white man. Because mass shooters are nearly always angry,...

May 2022

May 22, 2022

Communion is for Everyone

Or else it's for no one. Communion is for everyone. The presence of God found...

April 2022

April 03, 2022

Denzel Washington on Will Smith: “The devil got ahold of him.”

Washington offers the Christian response Photo by wikipedia During his International Leadership Summit, Saturday, T.D....

April 02, 2022

“Inventing Anna” and “The Dropout,” white, pretty, female con artists

Two shows, “Inventing Anna” and “The Dropout,” have at their cores the true stories of...

March 2022

March 28, 2022

Culture clash – Chris Rock and Will Smith

Christ Rock made a bad joke about Jada Pinkett Smith and Smith’s husband Will walked...

February 2022

February 06, 2022

A new alternative to traditional funerals – composting

“From dust we come, to dust we return,” is spoken at funerals, but it hasn’t...

August 2021

August 10, 2021

Suddenly Republicans are pro-choice

After generations of opposition to a woman’s right to choose to end a pregnancy, some...

January 2021

January 07, 2021

2021 Has Begun With the Unimaginable

So much happened in 2020 that we couldn’t imagine. The virus and the hundreds of...

November 2020

November 05, 2020

Avoiding Trump’s Nero Decree

On March 19, 1945, Adolf Hitler issued an order to destroy German infrastructure to prevent...

September 2020

September 21, 2020

Mitch McConnell’s Government Teacher Would be Appalled

“The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court...

September 06, 2020

The Racist Next Door

You pull into your driveway to see that the neighbors you don’t know very well...

August 2020

August 06, 2020

Liberty University’s Latest Embarrassment – Photographic evidence

Students and alumni of Liberty University, here is your president: Yet again, Jerry Falwell Jr. makes...

June 2020

June 06, 2020

Police Officers are Trained to be Cowards

In response to protests against police brutality, police across the country cracked down brutally— tear-gassing...

June 03, 2020

Trump is an anti-Christ fool: Don’t Get Distracted

President Trump’s pointless political posturing with a Bible in front of a church is an...

May 2020

May 18, 2020

Help Wanted at the International Mission Board

The International Mission Board has been looking for a marketing director. At $115,000 minimum annual...

April 2020

April 30, 2020

Would You Kill Baby Hitler?

Watching the new PBS series about World War II, World on Fire, I asked myself,...

November 2019

November 08, 2019

Trump, Paula White, and becoming a shut-eye

When a con artist starts to believe her con, that’s know as becoming a shut-eye....

July 2019

July 07, 2019

“Christians” Who Don’t Follow Christ Aren’t Christians

To be Christian— to believe in Jesus —means trying to be like Jesus, right? According...

June 2019

June 30, 2019

The U.S. Migrant Crisis is a Test for Christians

Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez left El Salvador with dreams of giving his 23-month-old daughter Valeria...

May 2019

May 29, 2019

“A Special Day of Prayer” is an Abomination

Franklin Graham is doubling down on supporting evil. Make no mistake Graham is on the...

May 12, 2019

More Wisdom from Rachel Held Evans

“I need the Eucharist because I need to begin each week with open hands. I...