The more differences around you, the more there is to fear.
About John Pavlovitz
Excerpts from The MAGA Bible
Available on the White House website, at NRA meetings, Southern Baptist churches, straight pride parades, and your local homophobic bakery.
Available on the White House website, at NRA meetings, Southern Baptist churches, straight pride parades, and your local homophobic bakery.
You’re Going to Die, So Be Happy (Posthumous Guest Post By My Cousin Stephen)
Accepting that death is as much a part of life as life itself, allows for a more fulfilling and rewarding existence.
Accepting that death is as much a part of life as life itself, allows for a more fulfilling and rewarding existence.
Prayer Doesn’t Heal People—At Least I Hope Not
To contend that God heals when we pray for those who are terribly sick or physically damaged—is to imagine a creator who needs to be convinced.
To contend that God heals when we pray for those who are terribly sick or physically damaged—is to imagine a creator who needs to be convinced.
The Christian Right is Radicalizing White People I Love
The change in them has been as stunning in its velocity and stomach-turning in its depths.
The change in them has been as stunning in its velocity and stomach-turning in its depths.
Being Human is Hard
This life is not for the faint of heart.
This life is not for the faint of heart.
No, Your Racism Is Not Welcome at My Table
This isn’t virtue signaling or identity politics.
This isn’t virtue signaling or identity politics.
Saturday Shootings and Sunday Services
It all unfolds with such putrid predictability.
It all unfolds with such putrid predictability.
Stop Telling Me To Leave America If I Don’t Like America
I’m staying in Donald Trump’s America because it isn’t Donald Trump’s America.
I’m staying in Donald Trump’s America because it isn’t Donald Trump’s America.
America is Dead
The America I accepted as real wouldn’t tolerate an unrepentant racist at its helm.
The America I accepted as real wouldn’t tolerate an unrepentant racist at its helm.
The Privilege of Positivity
Many people don’t have the option of avoiding negativity today.
Many people don’t have the option of avoiding negativity today.
Megan Rapinoe Won. So Did America.
She let us know that leaders lead by their willingness to hold their convictions more tightly than the reception those convictions receive.
She let us know that leaders lead by their willingness to hold their convictions more tightly than the reception those convictions receive.
Everything We Can’t Get Back
These things are gone for good.
These things are gone for good.
Never Let This Be Normal
This is the greatest challenge we face in these terrible days.
This is the greatest challenge we face in these terrible days.
I Want To Grieve Normal Things Again
One day this will be over and we can get back to mourning the regular collateral damage of living and losing.
One day this will be over and we can get back to mourning the regular collateral damage of living and losing.
Just Be Kind
You’re not going to find what you need where you’ve been looking. You already have it.
You’re not going to find what you need where you’ve been looking. You already have it.