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February 2019

February 26, 2019

Don’t Bury the Female Lede: Keeping Women’s Names in the Headlines

Elecia R. Dexter of Auburn, Alabama, is the new publisher and editor of the Democrat-Reporter,...

November 2018

November 26, 2018

Who Is It That We’re Waiting For? A Clanging Carol

Who is it that we’re looking for, when we sing Away in a manger, no...

November 07, 2018

Women in the House: Progress Comes in Steps, Not Waves

As of today, there are 100 Women in the House of Representatives. 100 Women in...

September 2018

September 28, 2018

No Words: When There’s Nothing Left to Say Before the Kavanaugh Vote

Like many of you, my moral outrage is spent after watching the Kavanaugh hearings yesterday....

September 13, 2018

Who Is My Neighbor? Kevin Yoder’s Ugly Campaign Tactics and Creating An Other

In my sermon on Sunday, I talked about the power of fear in our current...

September 06, 2018

“Anonymous” is No Hero: And That Op-Ed is Not Resistance, It’s Privilege

For starters, that New York Times op-ed—the one that's breaking the internet?—it isn't at all...

August 2018

August 24, 2018

A Border Wall Won’t Protect Against Toxic Masculinity

The death of Mollie Tibbetts is horrifying. A guilty verdict for her killer, Cristhian Bahena Rivera,...

August 23, 2018

Toppling of Silent Sam: The End of Another Battle in a War We Can’t Quit Fighting

Guest post by the Rev. Chris Furr As an undergraduate at UNC, I took a...

August 21, 2018

Tracking and Other Morally Repugnant Campaign Tactics Undermine Our Nation

Editor’s note: “Political tracking,” the practice of following candidates and constantly filming their public statements,...

August 10, 2018

If You Aren’t Progressive, What Are You? (Hint: It’s Not Conservative)

New trend: political ads in which a GOP incumbent says that his opponent is "too...

August 07, 2018

The Unengaged: America’s Real Third Party

The church I used to serve in Phoenix shared space with a preschool. It was...

July 2018

July 19, 2018

Say What’s True: What Would Wouldn’t Do

What would, would not. And could, couldn't go. Or as we say down home, Can't...

May 2018

May 15, 2018

The Real Cost of Evangelical Influence in Foreign Policy

Trump’s evangelical voter base has taken on a larger-than-life influence in this administration. And it's...

May 04, 2018

The Stormy Pamphlet: A Hamilton Parody for a President and a Porn Star

As the Trump-Stormy Daniels debacle continues to make headlines, enjoy this spoof on "The Reynolds...

April 2018

April 24, 2018

Women in the House: Tammy Duckworth (and her baby) Make Way for Equal Representation

It's a good week for girls. Sen. Tammy Duckworth was already killing it as the...

June 2016

June 21, 2016

And This Will Be Our Penance

Just to recap... Conservative leaders are running on platforms of "zero tolerance" for terrorism--and Muslims in general,...

February 2016

February 27, 2016

Dear Millennials: I Don’t Care If You Come to Church

Hey, Millennials. Listen. I no longer care if you come to church or not. I...

January 2016

January 19, 2016

Chapter and Verse: Why Faith-Based Voting is a Bad Idea

This story about Donald Trump speaking at Liberty University is so full of gross things,...

November 2015

November 11, 2015

Liberals Love America Too

We rail against gun culture, the gross injustice of capitalism, and the disintegrating lines between...

September 2015

September 23, 2015

Get it Together, America–We’ve Got Company

Maybe this week in U.S. news is no more embarrassing than any other. But I...

October 2012

October 31, 2012

Cut and Paste

I've had a startling revelation--I'm conservative. At least, the elements of my life reflect conservative...

October 25, 2012

How God Gets Stuff Done

It seems Mr Mourdock didn't get the message--that when God wants to get something done,...

October 24, 2012

A Bad Political Hair Day

That's what I would say, if you were slinging your hair around my territory. Alas,...

October 17, 2012

Primetime Throwdown (yes, Brian Williams just said ‘throwdown…’)

It was a long night. I went to sleep at a decent hour, then woke...

February 2012

February 08, 2012

The Faulty Filter

I don't understand much about phishing scams, or how the low-lives who run them turn...

February 03, 2012

A Profound and Prophetic Response

BOYCOTT JCPENNEY! WE DON"T WANT TO THINK ABOUT GAY PEOPLE WHEN WE"RE SHOPPING FOR OUR...

September 2011

September 08, 2011

The Sacred Struggle

"The middle ground lies in the struggle. The acceptance that, when violence becomes necessary to...

August 2011

August 09, 2011

Stop Making Me Look So Hot!

There are bad pictures out there, of every single one of us. Images of ourselves...