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February 2021

February 10, 2021

We Need to Be Honest When We Talk about Abortion

Our entire conversation about abortion and life ethics needs to change from a culture-war melee...

August 2020

August 08, 2020

Toxic Masculinity: What It Is, and What It isn’t

What we are objecting to is not men. We are objecting to immorality. And for...

December 2019

December 30, 2019

A Year-End Retrospective: Looking Back on Failure

It is our work, heavy work, tiring work, work where we often miss our turning...

December 16, 2018

Are We Trying To be So Awful That No One Will Want To Come Here?

Do these people realize what they’re saying? That the US is the kind of nation...

November 2016

November 10, 2016

why I don’t toe the line: pacifism and the hypocrisy of “religious liberty” rhetoric

Where the hell was the defense of religious liberty for my Church of Christ forbears...

August 2016

August 30, 2016

anthems, pledges, and religious liberty: why I sit with kaepernick

In fact, the realm of athletics has been an important space for the exposing of...

July 2016

July 01, 2016

war, abortion, and liberty: reconsidering our obsession with independence (and firing up the grill)

One of my favorite passages in The Lord of the Rings is when Aragorn asks...

June 2016

June 05, 2016

the bombing of hiroshima, the case of jane laut, and our immoral preferential option for the powerful

Or is it that we who laud death-dealing violence as an aspect of manliness, the...

May 2016

May 30, 2016

party loyalty is not important. it isn’t even a good idea

I've lived through sixeen years of two different Hitlers and, amazingly, lived to tell the...

May 12, 2016

now is the time to be whole life

Think how radical this could be.

March 2016

March 10, 2016

suspect teleologies and the depersonalization of men

And why are we so accepting of the idea that men are reducible to tools...