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Here’s How To Tell If Your Church Is Trash
I heard a song today. It gave me hope — Which is something that seems to be increasingly rare these days… ESPECIALLY songs that have anything to do with Jesus or the Church or Christianity. But it happened, and I’m … Continue reading
Posted in 1) Jesus, 2) Politics
Tagged Church Music, Daniel Deitrich, Great songs to sing in church, Hope, How to tell if your church is trash, Hymn For The 81%, Progressive Christianity, Putting kids in cages, Songs for worship leaders, The Cult of Trump, Trump Worship, White Evangelicals
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ICE Tried To Arrest An Immigrant Family. Their Neighbors Made A Human Chain To Protect Them…
Today, in a the Tennessee town of Hermitage (a suburb of Nashville), Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) attempted to arrest and detain an immigrant man who was with his son. The man KNEW HIS RIGHTS, and did not allow the … Continue reading
Posted in 1) Jesus, 2) Politics
Tagged Abolish ICE, Deportations, Fabian Bedne, Hermitage, Hope, Human Chain, ICE, Immigrant rights, Loving Our Neighbors, Nashville Immigrant Rights
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The Morning After The Election: 3 Reasons To Be Hopeful
After the results of the 2016 election started coming in and it became clear that the country was electing an awful, awful man to lead our country, I felt way more than just “disappointment.” I experienced a sort of existential … Continue reading
Posted in 2) Politics, 5) Not Quite Sure
Tagged 2018 Election, Automatic Voter Registration, Beto O'Rourke, Blue Wave, Hope, Justice, Politics, Proposition 4, Reasons to be hopeful, The day after the election, The Moral Arc Of History, The Mourning After, Voting, Voting Rights, Women's Wave
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The Rise of the Immoral Majority
You know what? Screw it… Maybe Donald Trump is the president America deserves. I was asleep. I was sound asleep tonight. I actually went to bed at a reasonable time. I thought to myself, “The world is a goddamn mess … Continue reading
If You Don’t Believe Online Conversations Change Anyone’s Mind, Then WHY ARE YOU COMMENTING?!?
My Facebook page is home to some controversial and sometimes contentious subjects of conversation. In addition to my own comment-inducing posts, I have also surrounded my online persona with many people who feel very strongly about things (political, theological, and … Continue reading
Posted in 4) All Of The Above, 5) Not Quite Sure
Tagged Changing people's minds, Changing people's minds on the internet, Cynicism, Facebook, Hope, Hypocrisy, Online arguments, Online interactions, Political discussions online, Right and Wrong, Social media arguments, Social media debate, Someone is wrong on the internet
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Not Everything Is Crap. I Promise.
I know it can feel that way. I feel it too. It can be easy to focus on all the things that are horribly wrong with the world. Supreme Court Justices and demonizing immigrants and immoral, corrupt leaders… It can … Continue reading
Moana Is The Movie The World Needs Right Now
Sometimes, when it all gets to be too much — When all of the Trumps and the Lies and the Liars and the Roy Moores and the Defenders of Pedophilia and the Jerry Falwells and the Fake Christians and the Alabama … Continue reading
Dear Christians: Now Would Be A Good Time To Come To Your Senses
“North Korea best not make any more threats to the United States. They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen. He has been very threatening, beyond a normal state… They will be met with … Continue reading
Posted in 1) Jesus, 2) Politics
Tagged Christianity, Christians who support Trump, Fire and fury, Hope, Jesus, Kim Jong Un, Loving Your Enemies, North Korea, Nuclear War, Robert Jeffress, Trump
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The Story Of How A Woman’s Right To Vote Came Through Nashville–A Story Of Hope
Last night I sat in my driveway with tears in my eyes, and I listened to the end of a story on NPR (specifically a story on RadioLab titled “One Vote”). You ever hear a story that is SO AMAZING that … Continue reading
The San Bernardino School Shooting, and Finding Hope Amidst The Trolls
I got on Facebook this afternoon, and discovered that there had been yet another school shooting. A man named Cedric Anderson checked in at the office of North Park Elementary School in San Bernardino, CA, he walked into the classroom of … Continue reading →