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Roy Moore Is Exposing The Worst Of Toxic Evangelicalism

2017-11-11 21:08

This week has been a solid L for Christianity. Roy Moore, the conservative nominee for the Alabama Senate, has been exposed as a pedophile. Four women have come forward and said that they we… Read More

Beyond New York: What Jordan Taught Me About Terrorism And Why It Matters

2017-11-03 04:05

This week, New York was attacked. Trump is again calling for a ban of immigrants. (This time advocating for only “merit based” immigration, the same program that allowed Einstein… Read More

Confederate Statues Are Not History. They Are Participation Trophies

2017-10-21 03:41

This week the Tennessee Historical Commission decided NOT to take down the Nathan Bedford Forrest Statue. The reasoning? “It’s history”. And that is the argument that runs… Read More

â€œThe Joshua Generationâ€ And Church Hurt

2017-10-14 14:00

A while back, a discussion was prompted on twitter about Pastors who push women to stay in abusive marriages. The stance is “God honors marriage and divorce is a sin”. Let me beg… Read More

Idiot America: Social Media Is Making Stupidity A Widely Accepted Virtue

2017-10-13 04:06

Today I uploaded a #BookReviewWithMel on my Youtube. The book reviewed was “Idiot America: How Stupidity Became A Virtue In The Land of The Free” by Charles P. Pierce. To me this… Read More

For Single Moms Considering Giving Up

2017-10-04 14:01

Today, there’s no political or social musing, but still something I hold near and dear to my heart. It’s probably far from a secret to most of my readers that I have a tiny tike… Read More

Stop Invoking A Leader You Donâ€™t Know: On MLK And The NFL Protests.

2017-09-26 03:28

The world has officially gone mad. The president is calling protesters “Sons of B*tches” (Seriously, why does he have time to wage twitter and press conference wars in the middle… Read More

So Jemele Hill Needs To Be Fired You Say?

2017-09-14 02:01

The last two days have been a whirl wind. Jemele Hill issued a series of tweets in which she told the truth about Donald Trump being a White Supremacist. ESPN, pandering to conservativ… Read More

Is That Not A Reason To Kneel? On Pat Tilman And Colin Kaepernick

2017-09-12 00:00

There is a new trend in the effort to demonize Colin Kaepernick. This trend is silly and outright disrespectful to the dead. In a new effort: NFL fans not of color have taken it upon themsel… Read More

We Arenâ€™t Doing Enough: The Church And â€œBlack Lives Matterâ€

2017-09-11 00:00

I originally wrote this piece a while after Eric Garner, it has since been updated. “We, as God’s people, have got to start holding these systems accountable” – Pasto… Read More

DACA, Immigration, And My Mother

2017-09-06 20:36

Im going to share a long personal thought/story/rant re: Immigration . My Mother immigrated. She did so legally, she did “everything right”. You know my earliest memory of the… Read More

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