Life During COVID: The View From Nashville
Life in the midst of COVID-19 has been trying. I have been denied any sense of normalcy. I have...
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Category: Commentary
Repudiating the Church of Trump
I am a 40 year old white conservative Christian male who lives in a very small town in rural...
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Let Them Eat Cake!
The election is over and Donald Trump has lost. Yet, his stranglehold on the Republican...
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Who Are They, If Not the Enemy?
Like most sane Americans, Canadians, Europeans, and pretty much any other member of the global...
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“Unity” and “Healing” at What Price?
“This is the time to heal in America,” Joe Biden said in his victory speech Saturday night. “I...
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This is Not a Time for Healing
Last night I went to bed angry and hopeless. I woke up this morning with Biden narrowly on top and...
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It’s the Morning After… And It’s Worse Than You Think
Whatever happens over the next days and weeks, as absentee and mail-in ballots are tallied, as the...
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The Sport of Democracy’s Final Minutes
It all comes down to today, to the final match-up that will determine the champion of the Sport of...
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Jeremy Corbyn and the Banality of Antisemitism
I have been reading comments in social media from many of my Gentile friends, colleagues, and...
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The War Doesn’t End on Election Day
I watched a YouTube video of an elderly couple being harassed by Antifa activists as they tried to...
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Woe Canada: Canada’s Race Problem
Yesterday, the Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Brenda Lucki, took umbrage with...
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… But What If Trump Wins?
The thought of Donald J. Trump winning a second term simultaneously seems both increasingly...
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The Canadian Lobster Dispute Reveals a Racist Double-Standard
We are seeing the ultimate double standard unfold right now in unceded Mi’kmaq territory in Canada...
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Pop (-Up) Urbanism in the City of Design
Barcelona is known around the world today as a city of design. Its urban grid, buildings, parks,...
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Capitalism and Empathy
With deaths from Covid-19 reaching more than 210,000, you might think that, as Americans, we would...
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Tonight I Pulled My Bible out of the Garbage
As I watched my Facebook timeline fill with hate and status updates celebrating the death of Ruth...
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Debate Night Epiphany: Vote Like Your Friends’ Lives Depend on It
During primary season, I wrote a satirical article “making the case” for Joe Biden. It consisted...
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Interregnum: A Sermon for Yom Kippur 5781
On Rosh Hashanah I addressed the powerful feeling of uncertainty that pervades our lives and our world at this unprecedented moment. I want to return to this theme for this Yom Kippur…
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Boiling a Frog: The Death of Democracy by Degrees
On this day eighty years ago, with no possibility of escape, and death in a Nazi concentration...
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We Are Long Past the Godwin Point: A Nazi Is a Nazi
It is always a tricky business comparing events in contemporary America to Nazi Germany. It can...
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