The MAGA movement is making otherwise mentally healthy people emotionally sick, and making ill people much worse.
When You Forget That They’re Dead
You know the way grief sneaks up on you in the middle of an ordinary moment, when you least expect it to arrive—and it levels you.
You know the way grief sneaks up on you in the middle of an ordinary moment, when you least expect it to arrive—and it levels you.
If You’re Done With Church
You aren’t rejecting God as much as you are removing yourself from harm’s way.
You aren’t rejecting God as much as you are removing yourself from harm’s way.
You’re Doing the Best You Can
Yeah, you aren’t perfect but welcome to freakin’ humanity. You’re in good stinkin’ company here.
Yeah, you aren’t perfect but welcome to freakin’ humanity. You’re in good stinkin’ company here.
Don’t Apologize for Your Faith (or Your Lack of it)
You and I are only responsible for authenticity, wherever we are at a given moment on the spiritual journey.
You and I are only responsible for authenticity, wherever we are at a given moment on the spiritual journey.
What to Do When You’re Losing Your Faith?
I just don’t know if I believe anymore—and I don’t know what to do about it.
I just don’t know if I believe anymore—and I don’t know what to do about it.
An Open Apology to Homophobic and Transphobic Christians
You can move away from the sins of your fears and phobias.
You can move away from the sins of your fears and phobias.
The America Worth Fighting For
This is a pivot point for us, America.
This is a pivot point for us, America.
Are the Bad People Really Winning?
Love is the most most powerful force on the damn planet, so wield it like a sword and make your mark deep into the terrible things in your path.
Love is the most most powerful force on the damn planet, so wield it like a sword and make your mark deep into the terrible things in your path.
I’ll Stop ‘Politicizing’ Mass Shootings if You’ll Stop Ignoring Them
By the time we’ve had a chance to grieve and bury the children killed today—there will be more dead children.
By the time we’ve had a chance to grieve and bury the children killed today—there will be more dead children.
Phobic Christians, While You’ve Been Bothering LGBTQ People…
Are you married to this ultimately fruitless cause that is doing nothing real but damage?
Are you married to this ultimately fruitless cause that is doing nothing real but damage?
White Supremacy Killed Tyre Nichols
The officers who killed him were simply the spigot. White supremacy is the plumbing.
The officers who killed him were simply the spigot. White supremacy is the plumbing.
Do White Americans Really Love MLK’s Dream?
Do we love the idea of the equality it alludes to more than what it will take to manifest and maintain that equality?
Do we love the idea of the equality it alludes to more than what it will take to manifest and maintain that equality?
Does Prayer Really Heal People?
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 Mask of Mental Illness
You’re going to have to be the one who sees through the mask, who steps into our space, who looks us in the eyes and who tells us we can stop pretending.
You’re going to have to be the one who sees through the mask, who steps into our space, who looks us in the eyes and who tells us we can stop pretending.
Here’s to a New Year of Unpretending
We can’t squander another fleeting moment being anything less than the most honest version of ourselves we can muster.
We can’t squander another fleeting moment being anything less than the most honest version of ourselves we can muster.