Frank Schaeffer: Elect People With the Guts To Oppose Trump
“Has anybody else sat in Rich DeVos’s office at Amway and walked away with a quarter-million dollar check? I have,”
Doug Pagitt: “You Have Heard It Said”
You have heard it said that you should keep your faith private and out of politics, and your politics out of your faith, but we are here to be reminded that you should let your light shine before all and not buried under a bushel basket.
John Pavlovitz: “Blessed are the Damn-Givers”
“Decide what matters to you, and then what are you going to do about it? How are you going to leverage your gifts, and your time, and your resources, and your vote to make sure that the people who come after us have an America worth inheriting?”
Keeping Track of What’s NOT Common Good
Experts in authoritarianism advise to keep a list of things subtly changing around you, so you’ll remember.
Before We Can Restore Wholeness, We Have To Name the Brokenness
I’ve been an Evangelical Republican for most of my life. I was a strong Republican. I was a staunch Republican. I was one of those knocking-on-doors-sticking-yard-signs-in-the-grass Republicans.
The Compassionate Trump Voter
You voted for Trump in 2016. You held your nose, decided that taking the least-bad option would be better than failing your responsibility to participate as a citizen, and you marked your ballot to elect the lecherous, foul-mouthed phony who at least promised to support some worthwhile policies. You became a Trump Voter.
Calling for Flipping the House is not Partisan, Even Republicans are Calling For It
In 2018, principled Republicans are finding themselves forced to do the unthinkable: endorse voting for a Democrat. The Party of Trump has simply gotten so bad that the only viable moral option is to stop voting Republican this time.
Doug Pagitt: Why Christians Should Flip Congress & Vote Common Good
Doug Pagitt has taken to the airwaves, spoken in public, and been online spreading the word about the need for us all to consider the common good when we vote. Until now, he has not been as explicit from the front of the church. That changed on Sunday. In talking with...
Who Is The “Stranger” in the KJV? Ask the V&A
The people who produced the King James Version of the Bible lived in a world where the word “stranger” literally meant “immigrant.”