So a suspect in the mailed pipe bombs has been arrested, and given a designation on social media, “The MAGAbomber.” Given both how the suspect adorned his van and the chosen targets, this seems like an apt description. Donald Trump’s rhetoric is like gasoline for angry people who feel themselves cornered, it was only a…
Tag: Politics
Disturbed
I keep calling for introspection. We keep getting tribalism.
Independence Day Reflection
Today is the celebration of American Independence and the beginning of the American Ideal. We’ve struggled to live up to it over the years, and failed great deal, but this is the first time in my lifetime we seem to have decided the ideal itself might be a bad thing.
Stuck In The Middle
Politically and theologically I’m a left-of-center leaning moderate. In today’s cultural climate this leaves feeling rather out of place.
The End of Civility
Because of an unwise ideological decision on the part of the Supreme Court, ideological discrimination may very well wind up as the *norm* in the country.
Advice to Churches, Part 5- Worship Is A Political Act
May Jesus always challenge us with the ways his kingdom challenges even our strongest partisan attachments.
