The moral unseriousness of torture and other stupid “tough guy” solutions to...
In the world of politics, most things are the opposite of what they seem. When politicians use cheap and dirty PR stunts to trick the media into to the narrative that they’re tough straight-shooters,...
View ArticleDonald Trump, Ted Cruz, and white evangelical nihilism
It’s going to be hard to write this without it coming across as trolling, but I’m really trying. People on my side of the debate within evangelical Christianity are far too gleeful about the way that...
View ArticleIs transgender bathroom panic the gay marriage of the 2016 election season?
In 2004, many political analysts concluded that the threat of gay marriage was the hot-button issue that gave George W. Bush a second term in the White House. A recent article reports that transphobic...
View ArticleWhen will political incorrectness stop being a family value?
Milo Yiannopoulos is the poster boy of the alt-right movement. His entire platform is based upon antagonizing political correctness, which has made him a sought-after speaker for College Republican...
View ArticleWhy I Don’t Believe in Punching Nazis
First of all, I have not yet participated in a protest where Antifa was present. I know that there’s an impossibly entangled mess of spin and truth about what Antifa has actually done. So the purpose...
View ArticleSome Thoughts on “Thoughts and Prayers”
Prayer is always primarily about the transformation of the one doing it.
View ArticleWhy I’m not taking my blog down from Patheos even though they hired Mark...
I’m not a woman. That means that misogynist ex-pastor Mark Driscoll’s words do not violate me directly. When he refers to women as “penis houses,” I recoil but I’m not triggered the way I would be if I...
View ArticleCan Jesus Forgive Sins Without Transforming the Economy? (A Response to Tim...
Jesus didn’t come primarily to solve the economic, political, and social problems of the world. He came to forgive our sins. — Timothy Keller (@timkellernyc) December 18, 2017 Tim Keller knows better....
View ArticleThe Difference Between Happiness And Joy
What is the difference between happiness and joy? I remember this being a common evangelical youth group Sunday school topic. Happiness is feeling good when everything is going right, but joy is...
View ArticleCancel (Another Poem About Twitter)
Beelzebub was presiding over the Convention of demons he had Gathered to strategize about what New techniques they could use to Continue the entrapment of humanity; They reviewed the success of...
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