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April 2018

April 15, 2018

A Quiet Place

Not being much of a fan of the horror movie genre, it was a...

April 12, 2018

A Teacher’s Heart Still Bleeds

Any teacher will tell you that nothing is more troublesome and gut-wrenchingly frustrating than student...

April 05, 2018

Of Teacher Strikes, Income Inequality, and Mother Jones

As teachers in several states have been striking for better compensation and working conditions, I...

March 2018

March 25, 2018

In God We Trust–Or, Maybe Not..

The state of Tennessee is in the headlines this week for a piece of legislation...

February 2018

February 27, 2018

The Evolution of Propaganda in America

Propaganda is everywhere. Whenever we turn on our televisions we are confronted with propaganda in...

February 14, 2018

Soul Blind–The Birth of a Song of Resistance

A couple weeks ago, I did something I almost never do--I wrote a poem. For...

February 06, 2018

America’s Systemic, Organizational Cancer

Is there anything more toxic and depressing than systemic, organizational cancer? Anyone who has ever...

January 2018

January 28, 2018

Soul Blind

Modify the river’s course Make the waters work for you Cast your lots with loaded...

January 22, 2018

There Must Be a Right and Wrong Side of History

I am acrimonious right now. I have been in a debate this afternoon with a...

January 19, 2018

How Did We Get Here?

Welcome to Bizarro World. For more than a year now, millions of Americans have been walking...

January 16, 2018

Thank You, Readers, for a Great First 6 Months at Patheos!

When I first began my personal blog in December of 2015, I didn't have any...

January 12, 2018

A Letter to Martin Luther King, from Trump’s America

Dear Martin, You don't know me. Our paths never crossed. I was a just a...

January 10, 2018

Thomas Jefferson, Perplexing Paradoxical Patriarch (or, Ain’t That America)

The Martin Luther King Jr. holiday is upon us and Black History Month is right...

December 2017

December 27, 2017

The Hypocrisy Gene

Nothing irritates a hypocrite more than hypocrisy. Perhaps Americans hate hypocrisy so much because it...

November 2017

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...

October 2017

October 30, 2017

Thanks for Nothing

A brilliant pink and purple sunset over a pristine island beach--a hardwood ridge on a...

October 25, 2017

The Tectonics of Rioting

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

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...

September 2017

September 16, 2017

Skeletons in Our Closet: Coming to Grips With Unpleasant Branches in Our Family Trees

When it comes to history, nobody's hands are clean.

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 17, 2017

Hands of Time

They say the eyes are the widow to the soul. Perhaps that's true. But I...

June 2017

June 27, 2017

The Liberating Power in the Potential of Wrongness–Making Room for Empathy

A smart man might firmly believe he is right. A wise man understands that he...

June 20, 2017

Letting Go…You Can’t Go Home Again

On an unseasonably mild, late December Sunday afternoon, a middle aged man stands in...

June 20, 2017

How I Finally Came to Understand My White Privilege

As a history teacher, I consider one of the most crucial parts of my job...

May 2017

May 30, 2017

When the Right Gets it Wrong–Losing the Message of Christ

As the presidency of Donald Trump continues to spiral in troubling circles of bizarreness, some...

May 27, 2017

Is Betsy DeVos Ushering in a New Age of Segregation?

It's no secret that President Trump is a big proponent of school choice and vouchers....

May 15, 2017

This Little Light of Mine

For anyone who grew up in a church-going household, it is likely one of the...

May 12, 2017

Dear Hillary

Dear Hillary, You should sit down for this, there are some things that need to...