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‘This is why I’m done with America’
Yesterday was a long year. I’d only been up for four hours, which was about the length of time I’d slept the night before, and already I’d been beaten relentlessly by a social media tsunami of anti-mask proselytizing, confederate statue worship—and a quick cut horror show of trending news stories about COVID parties, Costco white […]
When The Problem With American Christianity ‘Has Nothing to do With Jesus’
I meet thousands of people every year who rightly recoil against Christianity in America, who are fully sickened by its insidious influence in our political system; who see it as a toxic presence in our nation—one that serves only to divide and perpetuate inequity and inflict injury. Yet, it’s almost universally true, that these same […]
You Know You Can’t Wish Away A Pandemic, Right?
As a rule, denial is a really terrible life-saving strategy, no matter how popular it might be. Yesterday, I drove past a house party in my neighborhood: thirty or so people crammed into and spilling out of a home; grabbing drinks from coolers and playing corn hole and watching TV on a porch. No social […]