Therefore Pilate said to him, “So you are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say correctly that I am a king. For this I have been born, and for this I have come into the world, to testify to the truth….
First we had election deniers; now we have justice deniers
This time, the problem is not with America’s justice system; the problem is with conservative evangelicals’ warped view of what justice means. The folks always screaming about “law and order” don’t really care about law and order when it works…
On the Trump trial, the SBC and accountability
What happened in New York City Thursday? For one brief moment, in my 72 years, I saw a nation united around one idea that the rule of law still works as it was intended. Transparency hurts at times. In shortly…
Our undeceived young people
The first time both our kids were old enough to vote in the United States presidential election was the year 2016. That year, more than 80% of white evangelicals voted for Donald Trump. And here, eight years and one insurrection,…
Evangelical Christian Mike Johnson goes to Trump’s trial to say how unjust it is
First they amplified his false claims of election fraud, now a growing number of Republican leaders are supporting Donald Trump’s claims that the entire U.S. legal system is corrupt because he has been put on trial. Speaker of the House…
Ideology distorts everything — especially the truth
Roaring “isms” roam the streets, looking for someone to devour — or at least brainwash. Who knew we’d reach such a moment, given Americans’ long aversion to ideology and indifference toward the philosophical battles that have ravaged much of the…
Toxic crusaders: The rise of the ultracrepidarian-turned-influencer
George Bernard Shaw once wrote, “Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.” Ultracrepidarians are individuals who fancy themselves as experts in subjects which they know little to nothing about. While they may come across as confident, their…
Nancy French seeks atonement for past culture warring in Ghosted
Among the changes in America since Donald Trump rode down an escalator in 2015 and declared he wanted to be president: the end of Nancy French’s political writing career. As French explains in Ghosted: An American Story, she was a…
The truth about lying
Somebody is lying. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin examined 116,366 lies told by 632 participants over 91 days. Participants self-reported their lies, which raises the question, “Wouldn’t liars lie about lying?” Maybe that’s why the statistics around lying are…