What we so desire to be healing can so easily make it worse.
About John Pavlovitz
Hateful People Are Exhausting
I will be a person of love here or I will die trying.
I will be a person of love here or I will die trying.
An Open Letter to Those Who Still Give a Damn
Blessed are the damn-givers, for they will right-side the world.
Blessed are the damn-givers, for they will right-side the world.
Good People Don’t Defend a Bad Man
Generally speaking, there are things that good people do and things good people don’t do.
Generally speaking, there are things that good people do and things good people don’t do.
Bending the Arc of the Universe
The arc of the universe does not bend towards justice without us. It never has. It never will.
The arc of the universe does not bend towards justice without us. It never has. It never will.
These Protests Have Never Been About a Flag, an Anthem, or the Military
To come to the defense of a piece of cloth or a song, and not to the people beneath these protests is willful sin.
To come to the defense of a piece of cloth or a song, and not to the people beneath these protests is willful sin.
For Those Who Hurt On Mother’s Day
For some, this day is an injury that happens every year.
For some, this day is an injury that happens every year.
Waffle House Shooting: A White Shooter, a Black Hero, and White Presidential Silence
We are seeing who we are, America. And we’re seeing who we could be—if more good people move and more good people speak.
We are seeing who we are, America. And we’re seeing who we could be—if more good people move and more good people speak.
4 Promises From a Christian Pastor Dad if His Children Turn Out to be Gay
A Christian Pastor, and father of two, has thought long and hard about the possibility that a child of his might turn out to be gay. Here are his four promises if that happens.
Saving the Small World
There is in fact, a world that you are fully capable of saving and perfectly positioned to do so in these very seconds.
There is in fact, a world that you are fully capable of saving and perfectly positioned to do so in these very seconds.
If Your Children Came Home This Week
America needs to recover its outrage.
America needs to recover its outrage.
He Had a Dream. This Wasn’t it.
May we who share his dream, steward it well until it is no longer a dream at all—but the glorious reality of our national daylight.
May we who share his dream, steward it well until it is no longer a dream at all—but the glorious reality of our national daylight.
Silence is Violence
John Pavlovitz explains how the silent treatment adds worse insult than injury to a person. It adds invisibility.
The Resistance: Fighting What We Hate, Saving What We Love
Plan A is Love. There is no Plan B.
Plan A is Love. There is no Plan B.
White Terrorists Don’t Exist (Apparently)
Isn't it a relief to be a white guy in a place where white terrorism simply does not exist?
Isn’t it a relief to be a white guy in a place where white terrorism simply does not exist?
Men, We Need to Stop Being Horrible
You may have noticed that there’s one, terrible thread tying all this perpetual horror together—it’s us.
You may have noticed that there’s one, terrible thread tying all this perpetual horror together—it’s us.