I’m furious at white evangelicals today, and especially at my white evangelical neighbors. A little over a month ago, Hurricane Helene left our neighborhood looking like a disaster zone. To this day, we still have large trees down in our yards and…
Letter to my Black daughter on the 2024 election
Zyan, you haven’t gotten home yet from school, but there are tears running down my eyes as I hear Vice President Harris in the background conceding the election. This morning when you went to school, I could tell in your…
Dear Democrats, you neglected the poor
“Madame Vice President, I’m speaking.” This was the stunning message the majority of the American electorate sent Kamala Harris and her Democratic coalition in unmistakably clear terms this week. As other commentators have noted, Donald Trump’s victory in this year’s…
Standing on the precipice
When you read this opinion piece, the presidential election of 2024 will be finished, if not finally decided. It seems to me the election will determine whether the Seven Deadly Sins or the Seven Classical Virtues will be ascendant in…
The 3 temptations of Christ are similar to Trump’s temptations to evangelicals
Many distractions in this life take a person off of their true path. Even as I put these words together, I think about everything unrelated to my writing. I am thinking about my career and need to find work that gets me…
America makes a hard right turn with Trump as ‘good old boy’
After decades of progressive influence, America made a hard right turn on Tuesday, Nov. 5. Donald Trump won a decisive Electoral College vote as well as the popular vote. I resist the notion that the nation was voting against having…
Now some evangelicals see Trump as biblical King Jehu
Last time around, some evangelicals compared Donald Trump to the biblical king Cyrus as an imperfect instrument of God’s work. This time around, some of those same evangelicals have shifted biblical metaphors. Now, Trump is a modern-day Jehu. In case…
Christians and the fight for justice after Trump’s return
As we reflect on the state of our nation after the results of the 2024 election, we are confronted with a renewed sense of division, uncertainty and urgency. Donald Trump’s rise to power once again has raised profound questions about…
Save this column and don’t say we didn’t warn you
To about half the country, it appears the other half has lost its ever-loving mind. And forgotten how bad things really were in 2020. But here we are again — just like in 2016 — with the most dangerous man…