The Exvangelicals
By Sarah McCammon A Book Review New York, St. Martin’s Press, 2024 Ever since the 2016 election—and even years before—waves and waves of...
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Whose Definition of "Freedom" is Right?
How do you define “Freedom,” the quintessential trademark of America itself? And then—who’s definition of “freedom” is the right one,...
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How to Handle "Uncle Al" on Thanksgiving
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Similarities Between My Best Friend in High School and the Former President
I was standing on the front lawn of Roosevelt Elementary School with my best friend from high school on a Saturday. We had just...
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The Right (to suppress) The Vote!
The American Historian, Heather Cox Richardson, makes history come alive so that it pokes its head right up into our current political...
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Pruning the American Church With the Help of Beth Moore
I admire Beth Moore's courage this week as she parted ways with her church denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention, "citing the...
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Democracy Under Siege
Heather Cox Richardson wrote a cogent blog about how Democracy is Under Siege Around the World. Writing two days ago (Feb. 19, 2021), she...
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How Extreme Partisan News Degrades My Attitude
It’s been several weeks since I’ve pulled up CNN on my tablet for my breakfast of morning news--until this morning. I quickly remembered...
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DEMOCRACY REPORT 2020: Executive Summary
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“Calling Out or Calling In?”
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LEARNING HOW TO SEE
Podcast series with Brian McLaren, Dr. Jacqui Lewis, and Fr. Richard Rohr Based on McLaren’s ebook, Why Don't They Get It? Weblink to...
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ARE YOU ONE OF US OR ONE OF THEM?
In his chapters, “Your Brain on Groups” and “The Press Secretary in Your Mind,” Ezra Klein sets out in his book, Why We're Polarized, to...
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HOW AMERICA SELF-SORTED INTO POLARIZED POLITICS
Excerpts from Ezra Klein’s book, Why We’re Polarized. Part 2 of 2; Dec 9, 2020 Ezra Klein contends that Americans have not become more...
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How America's Political Parties Became So Polarized
Excerpts from Ezra Klein’s book, Why We’re Polarized. Part 1 of 2, Dec 7, 2020 Ezra Klein does a masterful job in peeling back layer upon...
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Why It’s Difficult to Have a Reasonable Conversation with Certain "Trumpers"
October 22, 2020 Patrick Kahnke, in his recent book, MAGA Seduction, helped me understand my frustration when trying to have a reasonable...
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A totally out-of-the-box, brand new, ground-breaking approach to the economic crisis!
Sunday, February 22, 2009 I just finished watching Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger being interviewed on ABC’s “This Week with George...
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Did you Board the Wrong (political) Train?
I just stared reading MAGA Seduction: Resisting the Debasement of the Christian Conscience, by Patrick Kahnke. Pat is a local St. Paul...
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A Conservative Evangelical's Resistance to Trumpism and What's At Stake
I just ordered the book, MAGA Seduction: Resisting the Debasement of the Christian Conscience, by Patrick Kahnke. Pat was a pastor in St....
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1934 Germany All Over Again
The following Forward to Patrick Kahnke's recent book, MAGA Seduction: Resisting the Debasement of the Christian Conscience, was written...
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