Are you ready with a response when someone makes a racist/sexist/ transphobic/ableist comment? What can we learn from the experience of the men's Olympic hockey team? Watch my answer here.

My website:
This site contains four of my main areas of interest:
Understanding Christianity within an Interfaith Context;
Recognizing and Dismantling the Religious Roots of Patriarchy;
Being a Proud Member of the Religious Left;
Spiritual Matters a/la Progressive Christianity.

Older Women — Not Young Men — Might Save Democracy If ever there were a moment to mobilize menopausal voters, it is now.

And post-menopausal women - we're not dead yet!

Tell State Farm: People of faith reject white supremacist slogans Rep. Andy Barr of Kentucky just launched a television ad declaring, "It's not a sin to be white." That phrase is a variation of "It's OK to be white" -- a slogan long embraced by white supremacists...

I just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: Tell State Farm: People of faith reject white supremacist slogans. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

[LIVESTREAM] People's State of the Union · MoveOn At the State of the Union (SOTU), Republicans in Congress are once again bending the knee to Trump and hanging their constituents out to dry. Nobody should participate in Trump’s vanity project, and t...

I'm attending MoveOn's event, “[LIVESTREAM] People's State of the Union” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/moveon/event...

YouTube video by Woofer McWooferson Help! (1965) - Fiendish thingy

This is how I learned about curling.

I hope you'll check out my new website:
sacred-and-subversive.com

Annotating the Judge’s Decision in the Case of Liam Conejo Ramos, a 5-Year-Old Detained by ICE (Gift Article) Our critic annotates the barbed wordplay of a decision challenging the Trump administration’s theory of executive power.

I love this judge!!!

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

YouTube video by Christopher Grundy "Take Us Home by Another Way" by Christopher Grundy

Keep up the spirit of Epiphany!

Tell Congress: Love Your Neighbor and Hold ICE Accountable On January 7, in a Minneapolis neighborhood, Renee Nicole Good was fatally shot by an ICE officer while attempting to drive away. This devastating killing was not an isolated incident. It was not even...

Think there's nothing you can do? Take action now!

'Happy Holidays' isn't an Insult to Jesus, But Christians Who Weaponize Christmas are. American Evangelicals’ annual campaign against the supposed “War on Christmas” began early this year, with the White House promising the apparently perpetually oppressed faithful that with Donald Trum...

Love this!
I say “Happy Holidays” because I want to be a light to people, whatever their faith tradition or religious worldview, and because simple kindness is rare in these dark days, because everyone could use some gentleness.
I say “Happy Holidays,” because I want to be like Jesus and not a jerk.

Piggies, Unite!

'Confronting White Christian Nationalism' Livestream with John Pavlovitz and Andra Watkins A recording from John Pavlovitz's live video

This is fascinating. Andra Watkins grew up in a Christian Nationalist church. If you want to understand how Christians can be drawn to authoritarian leaders, listen to her story.

YouTube video by Susan Strouse Me Too Redux

Time to revive #MeToo

YouTube video by Susan Strouse What Is Truth?

Thoughts for Reformation Day.

Looking for Hope? Try here... Running low on hope these days?

Read this. Then read it again. I needed this.

If you've never seen the San Francisco Mime Troupe (no they're not that kind of mime) or you don't live in the Bay Area, here's your chance. I've already seen it; it's great. Notice the password is POWERTOTHEPEOPLE.

YouTube video by Susan Strouse "Compassion Not Cruelty" at No Kings October 18, 2025

"No Kings" in Berkeley, Ca

YouTube video by zsnake2 Little Steven-I Am A Patriot_1984 Rockpalast

Hearing characterizations of No Kings protesters, I'm reminded of “I Am a Patriot" by Steven Van Zandt.

And I ain't no communist
And I ain't no capitalist
And I ain't no socialist
And I ain't no imperialist
And I ain't no democrat
So I ain't no republican
I only know one party
And it is freedom . .

Rachel Hurley Pass it on please.

Also, if you are a Christian who is appalled at the rise of white Christian nationalism, wear something (button, t-shirt, sign) to identify yourself as a follower of Jesus who really does follow his teachings.

Daniel Lurie said S.F. doesn’t need the National Guard. Hours later, Trump said S.F. should be ‘next’ Trump indicated that he wanted to send federal troops to San Francisco hours after Mayor Daniel Lurie and local law enforcement leaders pushed back on calls for the president to do just that.

Hell, no!

YouTube video by MSNBC John Fugelsang: Right-wing Christians use the Bible ‘as a prop’ & ignore Jesus’ message

Watch this, then read the book!

"We Could Hear Them Laughing as They Were Shooting Us from the Roof" The True War on Christianity — and on All of Our Faiths

What we are witnessing is not the “war on Christianity” Trump claims — it is his war on authentic faith. Authoritarianism cannot tolerate a faith that insists every human being has dignity and that love is stronger than fear.

Our endorsement on California’s Prop. 50 — and a nation polarized by Trump | Opinion Gov. Gavin Newsom pushed to get the proposition on the ballot. Here’s how we think you should vote.

I’m voting YES.
“We normally would not endorse an initiative that seeks to replace a non-partisan, widely praised method of drawing congressional districts with a partisan one designed to help one political party over another. But . . .”