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Three Hard Lessons, Three Quiet Gifts, and One Thing That Stayed With Me
When God Becomes a Campaign Strategy
The Story They Tell When Power Is Threatened
Christmas Was a Threat to Empire
When Power Pretends to Be Persecuted
Some Churches Protect the Building. Others Build Homes.
Turning Point USA and the Politics of Youth Formation
You Don’t Speak for God: An Open Letter to Joel Webbon
Why Empathy Is So Offensive to Reactionary Christianity
When Accountability Feels Like Persecution
Christians- Choose Your Teacher
If Pastor Phillippa Is ‘Unbiblical,’ Then So Is Isaiah, Jesus, and the Entire Book of Acts.
Homelessness Is Not a Moral Failure — But Our Policies Are
Trans Day of Remembrance: A Liturgy of Our Shared Humanity
Before You Celebrate MTG’s Change of Heart…
Why Being an Ally Isn’t Optional for Me
Why Evangelicals Will Believe Anything — Except What’s True
The Gospel According to Facebook
"Seeing From Above" | Saved Week 1
Plantation Capitalism and the Gospel of Excuses
I Don’t Hear a Theological Argument. I Hear an Excuse.
Jesus Fed the Hungry. MAGA Chose Not To.
How a High School English Teacher Changed My Life
We Didn’t Leave the Church. The Church Left Jesus.
Kings, Crowns, and Eighth-Grade Lies
Chapter 4 — Naming Our Needs Without Shame
The Quiet Work of Staying Human
Chapter 3- When Trust Has Been Broken
White Fatigue (But Not the Kind You Think)
Chapter 2 — The Body Remembers
The Dangerous Fantasy of Televised Executions
The Lord’s Prayer Is Not America’s War Cry.