Category: social commentary

I Don’t Know What To Do With Good White Evangelicals

The election is over. The real-estate-mogul turned reality-show ringmaster turned receptacle of American rage is headed for the highest office. And my friends helped get him there. The Evangelicals®. Four out of five white Evangelicals® voted for Trump. For them, he was their only hope to protect religious liberty and human life. Now, we all want life and liberty – our own versions of them – so why should I fault them? Because I fear they mortgaged…

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Oh, America!

Oh, America, you wide open wound, weeping with rage and unrest. You have stunned all us liberals who fancy ourselves educated and evolved. You are done with our smug vision of a perfect world where everything works and all are welcome (except those who don’t follow our rules). You’ve had enough with our political correctness and our hybrid cars and Pilates. You are done with the Wall Street we (and you) allowed to go on trading, without…

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Miley Cyrus And The Line Of Despair

I’ve been reading up on Francis Schaeffer. If you don’t know him, he was an American guy who went to Switzerland and opened the famous L’Abri workshops. L’Abri means “shelter” in French. (Thank you, Zim! I thought it meant “open,” but that’s just the sign I see on my local taco stand). Anyway, Schaeffer created L’Abri to be a safe place for people to grapple with the Big Questions… and then he told them the…

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