“Can’t we just agree to disagree?” This has been a common thread lately on social media and among conversations with people I know. Certainly, we can. I like vanilla, and you prefer chocolate ice cream. I cheer for my alma…
Progressive white Christian men, it’s time to get some skin in the game
This election has sent a lot of us in the middle and on the left reeling. It’s also reminded me that we have different things at stake. Nearly 60% percent of white men voted Trump. A lot of Black and…
This is what it feels like to be ‘collateral damage to your rage’
Donald J. Trump has been president or running for president my entire voting life. 2016 was the first presidential election I could vote in. I remember waking up that November and feeling, like many Americans, wholly shocked by the election…
Here’s the toxic racism and misogyny you let loose with a vote for Trump
If Kamala Harris had won, no Black people would be receiving text messages threatening to make them slaves again, and no women would be being told, “Your body, my choice.” When Trump wins, those things happen. And when Trump loses,…
‘Remember the ladies’
In 1776, Abigail Adams wrote to her husband, John, “Remember the ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands. Remember all men would be…
Vote for us, because in the economy of God, there is no them
I never have told anyone — not even my children — how to vote. Today, though, I shall ask you to consider for whom to vote, if you have not already. I encourage you to vote for your neighbor, for…
God and a woman
In Sisters and Saints: Women in American Religion, Harvard religion professor Ann Braude writes: An old saying among members of African American churches can be applied to most religious groups in the United States: “Women are the backbone of the…
There’s a Crazy Index for Donald Trump
Is it just me or is Donald Trump getting crazier by the day? How is it possible for a man who is a congenital liar, a convicted felon, a con man and a fraud who happens to be emotionally and…
About Gen Z and the election: Understand the importance of gender and diversity
Gauging the potential influence of Generation Z on the November election requires an understanding of the importance young Americans place on gender and diversity, said Melissa Deckman, CEO of Public Religion Research Institute. “It’s really, really critical,” she said during…