Hopelessness has never made the world safer, or more just, or more beautiful, and it is of no use right now.
In days like these, nothing helpful can come from resignation.
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We’ll talk Christian Nationalism, the Bible, MAGA evangelicals, Projects 20252026, the misogyny, racism, and homophobia in the Church, and the struggle for decent people of faith to know where to fit.
Share a comment with a question for any or all of our guests, and I’ll share as many as I can!
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Absolutely stellar lineup of guests for my upcoming Substack video series, ‘LOATHE THY NEIGHBOR’, which starts on March 23rd! Ministers, theologians, thought leaders, still Christians, former Christians, and spiritual mutts...
I’m trying to stay to help build the country I dream of living in, the one whose glory I have seen brief flashes of; the one that has always been made better by good people who decided to be loud in the face of a powerful violence that seemed to be winning.
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I’m trying to stay because my children and so many other people’s children deserve to inherit something less like what this place is, and more like the place it could be: the nation the songs declare we are but have not yet been...
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We have to refuse to pretend that every situation is simple and every side clear, and to resist the temptation to dismiss people out of hand when they don’t show up with the conclusions and clarity that we feel we have.
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If we are to be people of conscience, of ethics, of morality, we have to be people of complexity and nuance; human beings who will not avoid study, reflection, and the tensions that we encounter...
Whether in our political affiliations, our stances on divisive issues, or our emotional response to wide-scale suffering, we are being pushed to opposite poles by a common reductive oversimplification that demands immediate agreement and absolute certainty.
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I’ve really had it with people who are still criticizing the emotionality of those of us who’ve been told for a decade that we’re overreacting, while we’ve watched every single supposedly impossible prediction come to pass.
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I’ve reached my breaking point with human beings around me who are still averting their eyes, avoiding the news, and anesthetizing themselves on a mind-numbing cocktail of wishful thinking, retail therapy, self-preservation, and American exceptionalism...
I’m having a really hard time with the unbothered people, the “everything is gonna be fine” people, the people who are acting as though they are above those of us who are blowing gaskets, breaking down, and freaking out...
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We have lost the war to ensure that we did not place our nation’s fate into the jittery hands of a classless, bottom-feeding, race-baiting, empty husk of a human being, whose eight decades on this planet have not yielded one noble impulse or benevolent act.
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None of that exempts us from our failure to police our own; for the times we have stayed silent when speaking required courage; when we have laughed nervously through the dehumanizing, racist, and sexist filth delivered by our neighbors, fathers, friends, and co-workers.
There is no Good White Guy loyalty card where we earn rewards for having deconstructed our faith, spoken out against patriarchy, defected from the politics of our parents, or evolved beyond the dog-and-pony faux opatriotism we were weaned on...
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The moment they are jarred awake by the sobering truth that their whiteness, party affiliation, church attendance, Lib-owning bumper stickers, and red hats won’t save them from the disaster they have helped create, then and only then will they care in the slightest.
When their feet are finally put to the fire they wished upon so many others, suddenly immorality and illegality will be objectionable...
When MAGA Americans finally realize that they, too, are victims of the criminality and predation they initially hoped would only be for those despised others (the immigrant, gay, brown, black, woke, and blue staters), then it will be a bridge too far.
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JD Vance on the campaign trail in 2024:
Yes, our Democracy is in peril, but our most treasured relationships with people are in tatters, too.
We are trying to salvage both, and it’s exhausting…
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This is a Constitutional crisis, and it’s a family emergency.
We’re wondering what happened to our nation, and to people we once loved and respected; to our parents, grandparents, siblings, neighbors, and best friends...
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RALEIGH!
Join me tomorrow at 10:30 am at Unitarian Universalist Peace Fellowship - Raleigh.
We'll be talking war, peace, religion, politics, ICE, Iran, your family, and your mental health.
I hope to see you there!
F Kristi Noem, but equally, preemptively, emphatically, and stridently F Markwayne Mullin.
Goodbye, sociopathic dog murderer.
Hello, violent insurrection denier.
Super regime...
