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(Source: Twitter) Yesterday, 17 children were gunned downed in their school. It was the 18th school shooting in the United States in the last 45 days.* And while the vast majority of Americans are horrified, appalled, and outraged, demanding some sort of action, any...

(Credit: Wikipedia) If you don’t get goosebumps listening to the end of Martin Luther King Jr.’s I Have A Dream speech, you need to check your pulse. Or maybe your soul. It’s a riveting message of hope and aspiration for a future free from the racial divide that...

(Credit: Will Clayton, Flickr Creative Commons) I turn 35 in a little over a week or so. It feels a lot weirder to write that than it does to live it. Almost 35 isn’t quite the depressing hellscape I envisioned when I was 16. Don’t get me wrong. Waking up everyday at...

(Credit: Wikipedia) The President of the United States is an unapologetic racist. He’s certainly not the first racist President and, sadly, probably won’t be the last. But unlike Presidents in recent memory who, generally speaking, at least publicly made an effort to...

(Credit: James Marvin Phelps, Flickr Creative Commons) Having spent my entire life in the South, I quickly learned something about many of my fellow lifelong Southerners that I didn’t realize until I moved to New England several years ago. Many lifelong Southerners...

(Screengrab) This morning on Fox & Friends, a show that was once quite literally a running gag on Saturday Night Live, Dallas pastor Robert Jeffress had this to say about the Trump administration’s immigration policy and whether or not Christians should support...

(Twitter screenshot) As millions of Americans fight for survival on the island of Puerto Rico, Donald Trump continues to stir racial animosity stateside. Not because he actually cares about the flag or the anthem or even patriotism. All Donald Trump cares about is...

(Screengrab) By now, you’ve surely heard about the so-called Nashville Statement as well as the surge of opposition it created in its wake. You probably weren’t surprised when the signers of the Nashville Statement refused to either back down from Article X’s...

(Credit: Alborzshawn, Flickr Creative Commons) Last week, the Council on Biblical Manhood & Womanhood released their now infamous Nashville Statement condemning not just the LGBT community as sinners, but their allies as well. According to the signers of the Nashville...

(Source: Twitter) In the wake of Donald Trump’s defense of neo-Nazis and white supremacists in Charlottesville, VA, there has been such a mass exodus of advisors, that his Manufacturing Council, Strategy & Policy Forum, and Arts Commission have all been disbanded....

(Credit: Wikipedia) Last weekend, white supremacists, Klan members, neo-Nazis,  and other “very fine people,” carried their tiki torches across the University of Virginia campus and rallied around a statue of Robert E. Lee in protest of its removal....

(Credit: Twitter) This afternoon, Donald Trump announced he was disbanding his Manufacturing Council after several of the CEOs on the Council resigned en mass following his unapologetic defense of the white supremacists and neo-Nazis whose violent racism and hatred...

(Credit: Paul Sableman, Flickr Creative Commons) I’m a big Atlanta Braves fan. Have been since I was 9 years old. Like, I’m the kid who was so distraught after they lost the ’92 World Series that I couldn’t go to school the next day. I fully recognize that is...

(Source: Facebook) Yesterday, while taking break from playing golf and ranting on Twitter, Donald Trump thought it would be a good idea way to boost his polls numbers and distract from a mountain of investigations to threaten North Korea with “fire and fury like...

Sometimes I fall through an internet wormhole a discover a whole new world I either didn’t know existed or was in denial of. This is a case of the latter. I know there are plenty of bad Christian books out there, but I try not to think about just how bad they can be...