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November 2017

November 28, 2017

Supporting the Orange Man and Ignoring the Red Words: Orange and Red Don’t Mix

The words were projected upon the walls behind the pulpit. As he spoke, the pastor...

November 27, 2017

The Myth of the Good Ol’ Days

There is a fundamental part of us that seems to yearn for something in our...

November 17, 2017

How Reggie Miller Taught Me to Empathize with Trump Supporters

Like most folks who lived in Indianapolis during the 1990s, I have a soft spot...

November 16, 2017

What a simple bottle of water can tell us about President Trump

As I scrolled through my Twitter feed recently, I noticed an AP story that was shared by...

November 02, 2017

An Indelible Stain

No matter what happens from here on out, it feels the damage is done. We...

October 2017

October 25, 2017

The Tectonics of Rioting

For days, the city was a disaster area. When the news broke, the bubbling magma...

October 19, 2017

70 X 7 = It’s All Good

Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, “Lord, how many times shall I forgive my...

October 18, 2017

The Other Side of Hollywood: How Harvey Weinstein has Exposed the Reactionary Hypocrisy in Us All

I write for the Patheos Blue Channel. My articles often call out the Right. This...

October 10, 2017

Better next time: A prayer for leadership

“I pray Heaven to bestow The Best OF BLESSINGS ON THIS HOUSE and All that...

October 04, 2017

Gun control and conservative Christianity

We've just had another one. The horrific event in Las Vegas has placed another "biggest...

October 02, 2017

Broken: A 2nd Amendment Guy Comes Out With His Hands up

I'm a gun owner. I have always been a supporter of 2nd Amendment rights. But...

September 2017

September 28, 2017

When Conservative Christians’ Patriotism Overwhelms Their Heart for the Hurting

Patriotism has shrouded the hearts of too many Christians. Too many have sold their soul...

September 27, 2017

5 cards conservatives keep up their sleeves for any discussion on racial problems

The NFL's controversial Take a Knee protests have the nation talking about racial issues. That's...

September 26, 2017

Are you defending the flag or hiding behind it?

I've been debating all day. In the wake of the article I wrote on Sunday...

September 24, 2017

I Choose to Stand Because I Haven’t the Guts to Take a Knee

They are crying out for our great nation to be greater--to be what it is...

September 21, 2017

“Black Lives Matter” Matters: If You Don’t Think So, You Are the Proof

If millions of people perceive a problem, there is likely a problem, whether you can...

September 04, 2017

Conservative Christian Trump Supporters, How Can You Support the Repeal of DACA?

President Trump continues to do everything within his power--perhaps even things beyond his power--to wipe...

September 03, 2017

What a Utah Nurse’s Arrest Reveals About White Privilege

What is different about this case is the sort of people that are outraged by...

August 2017

August 30, 2017

We Don’t Need Your Nashville Statement, We Know What You Think Already

You continue to single out one "sin" and harp upon it above all others--a very...

August 25, 2017

I’ve Had It With the Lost Causers: The Cause of the Civil War Matters

More than 150 years after the end of the Civil War, historians still debate what...

August 21, 2017

Symptoms Change, Flare Up and Recede, but the Disease Remains the Same

My wife and I had an argument last night. We don't talk often about politics...

August 19, 2017

Blessed are the Peacemakers–a Message for the Resistance

Photo: Washington Star-Bernie Boston (1967) When you see them, it is easy to let rage...

August 18, 2017

The Message about Racism that I Took from a Movie You Probably Didn’t See

Sometime in late 2015, I began to hear a buzz about a Civil War movie...

August 17, 2017

Trump’s Confederate Monument Tweets are Just Alt Right Dog Whistles

President Trump has been busy on Twitter lately. He is suddenly passionate about preserving our...

August 17, 2017

Why I Do What I Do Even When I Don’t Want to Do It–Confessions of a Reluctant Political Blogger

If you'd have told me two years ago that I'd have signed a contract to...

August 16, 2017

Taking on the Sticky Topic of Removing Confederate Monuments.

The issue on the surface of the terrible events in Charlottesville, Virginia is nothing...

August 13, 2017

Dear Consevative Christian Friends, Can We Talk About Charlottesville?

Dear Conservative Christian Friends, We need to talk about Charlottesville, Virginia. You need to hear...

August 11, 2017

Hitching Our Wagons to Madmen–A Prayer for Sanity

...for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and...

August 06, 2017

What If It Didn’t Matter?

"If a boy tells his parents he is attracted to another boy, he should be...

August 03, 2017

I’m tired and numbed by the constant noise of Trump’s America

With the passing of each new day, the news from the White House gets more...