I so hate that it is your reality: not that you are who you are but that people are who they are in response, that your inherent beauty is met with such undeserved ugliness.
About John Pavlovitz
They Survived a Global Pandemic, But Not America’s Gun Epidemic
The coronavirus has historically brutalized the planet, but it will pale in comparison to our greed and our fear and the sickening truth that nearly half this nation treasures guns more than people.
The coronavirus has historically brutalized the planet, but it will pale in comparison to our greed and our fear and the sickening truth that nearly half this nation treasures guns more than people.
The Christians Who Would Not Help People
They all voted no on giving aid to Americans during the single greatest health crisis of our lifetimes: one that has taken the lives of over a half a million Americans and left millions more at the precipice of poverty and homelessness—or well beyond it.
They all voted no on giving aid to Americans during the single greatest health crisis of our lifetimes: one that has taken the lives of over a half a million Americans and left millions more at the precipice of poverty and homelessness—or well beyond it.
The God Mockers
It’s a mockery of God to ignore safeguards in a pandemic.
It’s a mockery of God to ignore safeguards in a pandemic.
I’m Fine, Thanks for Masking (A Letter to Compassionate People)
Today I’m fixing my gaze on those who rose to the moment, those who became a better version of themselves, those whose humanity would not be denied.
Today I’m fixing my gaze on those who rose to the moment, those who became a better version of themselves, those whose humanity would not be denied.
God Wrecked America
I’m quite familiar with the story: supposedly faithful people fashioning an idol made of gold and cravenly bowing before it, in complete contempt for the God they claimed to believe in because they had lost their collective minds.
I’m quite familiar with the story: supposedly faithful people fashioning an idol made of gold and cravenly bowing before it, in complete contempt for the God they claimed to believe in because they had lost their collective minds.
Grieving Half a Million American Lives
How do you hold a collective funeral for that many souls at once?
How do you hold a collective funeral for that many souls at once?
When You’ll Defend Anything
When some declare that no line is too far to cross—the rest of us will be here to defend that line together.
When some declare that no line is too far to cross—the rest of us will be here to defend that line together.
Mansplaining the Trauma of Women
Right now, millions of men are exacerbating the damage done because they lack the emotional maturity and simple decency to sit with other people’s pain (especially that of women) and allow it to call them to a place of deeper humanity, introspection, and change.
Right now, millions of men are exacerbating the damage done because they lack the emotional maturity and simple decency to sit with other people’s pain (especially that of women) and allow it to call them to a place of deeper humanity, introspection, and change.
We Need Kind Humans Now
It seems like kind people are an endangered species.
It seems like kind people are an endangered species.
The Kind of Unity America Doesn’t Need
Unity that requires us to abide terrorism or perpetuate inequity or ratify violence, isn’t unity, it’s coddling evil.
Unity that requires us to abide terrorism or perpetuate inequity or ratify violence, isn’t unity, it’s coddling evil.
A Friend Said President Biden’s Inauguration Was a ‘Sad Day For America.’ I’m Sad For Her.
She can’t see that normal is better, that more diverse is better, that words of kindness are better.
She can’t see that normal is better, that more diverse is better, that words of kindness are better.
Goodbye, Donald. You Were a Helpful Disaster.
I was wrong about you.
I was wrong about you.
A Revolution of Nothing
This was an empty insurrection.
This was an empty insurrection.
The Deadly Four-Year Coup We All Saw Coming
This was MAGA in all its naked ugliness, what it has always been.
This was MAGA in all its naked ugliness, what it has always been.
The Bruised Angels (To Frontline Healthcare Workers)
Their faces testify to the nightmares they’ve had a front row seat to.
Their faces testify to the nightmares they’ve had a front row seat to.