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April 2022

April 27, 2022

Jesus and Elon Musk: America’s Income Inequality Problem

Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter has put the issue of wealth in the forefront of...

April 13, 2022

Dear Christians, Relax, Schools Are NOT Grooming Your Kids to Be Gay or Trans

In case you missed it, in a Fox News interview with author turned politician, J.D....

March 2022

March 24, 2022

Christian Pre-School Teacher Leads 4-Year-Olds in Anti-Biden Chant

Imagine walking into a preschool classroom full of precious and impressionable little children. The teacher...

March 15, 2022

Jesus Was a Social Deviant: A Brief History of WASP-y Assimilation in America.

Americans like to say that this country was founded on the ideals of religious...

March 10, 2022

CRT is the latest in a long history of far right moral panic attacks against public education…remember Ebonics?

The uproar we are currently experiencing over the topic of the teaching of Critical Race...

March 08, 2022

Teacher who struck student has long history of political indoctrination

Last week, I wrote an article about the now national story of the teacher in Jimtown, Indiana...

March 04, 2022

Viral Video of Teacher Slapping Student Shines Spotlight on Our Mental Health Problem

Chances are you’ve seen the shocking video from Jimtown, Indiana that shows a veteran teacher...

February 2022

February 22, 2022

Christian Nationalists vs. Critical Thinking in Public Education

For decades now, education insiders have been proclaiming to the public that the far right...

February 17, 2022

New Education Bills are Trojan Horses for Christian Nationalists

It is the middle of the day at the public high school in Anytown, Texas....

August 2021

August 20, 2021

Far-Right Lawmakers are Trying to Erase the Role Models of Minorities

The truth is under attack in this country. This has been so in the battlefields...

August 07, 2021

A Message from the Front Lines of the Indoctrination Wars

Over this summer break, I quite intentionally took time away from writing about political...

February 2021

February 04, 2021

The Push to Reopen Schools as Normal has Many Teachers Rightly Concerned

Like the world in general, the education landscape has been anything normal in the...

August 2020

August 07, 2020

Reprogramming our Minds to Pull Empathy from Hatred

Yesterday was our first day back to school in almost five months. As is normally...

February 2020

February 05, 2020

I’m Lying Everyday, I’m Not OK

On any given day, I probably get asked at least once or twice, "how are...

November 2019

November 30, 2019

Faith in the Public School Classroom: Dispelling the Myths

For many years now, I've been waging a quiet and subtle battle against a persistent...

November 11, 2019

Conservative Christian, You Don’t Own Patriotism-You Might Not Even Understand It

As we all pause to appreciate our military veterans today, I've been thinking about the...

October 2019

October 30, 2019

Public Education is in a Critical Crisis and the Solution Could Be So Simple

The current state of public education in America is an extremely serious crisis. The vast...

October 10, 2019

I Dreamed I Was Dreaming

I dreamed I was dreaming when an unscrupulous, misogynistic, billionaire reality tv star announced his...

September 2019

September 25, 2019

Dear Donald, I’m Going to Miss You

Dear Donald, You may be surprised to hear this from me, given how much I've...

September 16, 2019

How Can a Conservative Christian Help Us Put Trump in the Trash Bin of History?

Hey, conservative Christians, let's talk. First, let me say this, if you are proud of...

September 05, 2019

Right Wing Christian, You Can’t Judge Anyone When You Support a Pathological Liar

As Donald Trump's poll numbers continue to plummet, the most conservative Christians continue to be...

August 2019

August 27, 2019

The Biblical and “Family” Roots of Conservative Christian Whataboutism

I've been watching the new Netflix documentary series, The Family, this week. If you are...

August 22, 2019

We Will Never Be What We Claim to Be Until We Face Who We Really Are

Have you heard about the brouhaha over "The 1619 Project" from the New York Times?...

July 2019

July 19, 2019

7 Signs Donald Trump (and His Supporters) Hate America

Just when you think the Trump circus couldn't get worse, he ramps it up another...

May 2019

May 08, 2019

Since Moving Left, I Like Myself Now

Ten years ago, I was right where I thought I was supposed to be. Everything...

March 2019

March 20, 2019

Confessions of a 21st Century Teacher

When I started writing as a part of my living a few years ago, I...

March 13, 2019

Empathy Mining’s Top 10 Most Popular Articles

From time to time, I like to dig back through the Empathy Mining archives and...

February 2019

February 17, 2019

The “Sin” of Liberalism

Look at that guy sitting in the pew over there. Who does he think he’s...

February 03, 2019

Conservative Christian, I Really Need to Ask You Some Things

As one who's been on both sides of the political spectrum, I try my best...

January 2019

January 24, 2019

We Should All Be Ashamed of Ourselves for the Covington Catholic Spectacle–ALL of Us

No laws were broken. Nobody got injured. But there were no winners. There is no...