Demanding that your fellow citizens adhere to the strictest interpretation of the Bible while not requiring any adherence to the Bible from your preferred presidential candidate is one of the clearest ways to express that you see the Bible only as a tool for your own power.

Just in case you didn't notice: back in 2021, Politico, which used to lean center/left and was generally a fair reporter, was sold to a massive German right-wing media conglomerate. Their reporting is starting to push further and further right-wing, especially in the last month.

1/8: I'm increasingly disheartened by the sheer volume of vile, disgusting posts I come across, only to check the bios and see phrases like "Christ is King," "Christian," "Reformed," and similar proclamations of faith.

Is it too much to hope that if Trump loses, most of the people who vote for him this year will actually breathe a sigh of relief and simply move on with their lives, and not riot?

To me it's pretty simple: only one of exactly two people will become president of the US. I can either participate in the selection of which one it will be, recognizing my pragmatism, or I can leave it up to others, flexing my purity. I plan to participate.

The pro-life/pro-choice argument is superheated today. I wrote a paper studying what might be the best ways to reduce abortion in our complex, pluralistic, and religiously-diverse society. It turns out that complete bans don't actually work. So what does? crucibleofthought.com/studies-on-the…

Mike Collins represents GA-10 where Apalachee High School is located. Here's the commercial he made when he first ran for congress.

If your Christianity causes you to want to move heaven and earth to legislate against people using IVF but causes you to just say “thoughts and prayers” over school shootings, please don’t ever expect us to believe you are really concerned about God wanting you to “save life.”

This tweet was up for less than 60 minutes before another mass school shooting hit national news. Parents might be more willing to go phone-free if we found a way to stop being a nation where stuff like this kept happening. I think students & teachers would appreciate as well.

Suggestion: when you share information about the DOJ indictment of the Russian right-wing influence campaign with your MAGA family/friends, simply share this link from Fox News. It's harder for them to deny when it comes from their own preferred source. foxnews.com/politics/biden…

Notice how differently the headlines for this Fox News story are framed by Twitter's link-captioning bot, versus what is shown by Threads and BlueSky and Facebook? "Biden DOJ did this evil thing" versus "Russia Times employees did this evil thing." Hmmm.

Like it or not, America is pluralistic. What will it take to get along with people who are very much unlike us, while staying true to our sense of righteousness? I suggest the answer is remembering that Jesus' Kingdom is not of this world - or our nation. youtu.be/xQtS-wAkftI

Never forget: in January after the Iowa school shooting, Trump's response was "just horrible.... but, uh, we have to get over it." Not, "do something about it," but "get over it." No. No. Just no. Thoughts and prayers won't stop the next shooting. youtu.be/ggC007-9AxE?si…

Colt Gray. Not an immigrant. Not LGBTQ. Not Muslim. Not Black. Nope, just a white kid of middle-class parents in suburban America. And Dad bought him a semi-automatic military-style gun for Christmas. Maybe people are focusing on the wrong things?