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Matching Scars: Taylor Swift, Friendship, and the Cancelled! Controversy
Why do we cancel someone? Do people always deserve it? Is it just for celebrities? Is it all just a joke? Is it offensive to joke about? Is it bad to ever befriend a person who is cancelled? These are just some of the questions that come to mind when trying to think through criticism of yet another track on Taylor Swift’s most recent album release: Cancelled! The song, an upbeat anthem declaring…
Free to Choose: On Taylor Swift, Trad Culture, Feminism, and the Wi$h Li$t Controversy
Taylor Swifts’ twelfth album, The Life of a Showgirl, dropped this past Friday and – like all things Taylor Swift – was welcomed with instant controversy. What particularly caught my eye, however, was how two of the more shallow songs on this track list were picked up as signs of Taylor’s supposedly objectionable descent into MAGA-lite or MAGA affiliated behavior in recent years. Those songs,…
A Tale of Two Town Halls
Senator Bennet and the Struggle of the Democratic Party “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us,…
Project 2025: What the GOP Wants and Why It Matters
On Tuesday of this week a 32 year man in a suburb of Philadelphia murdered and decapitated his own father. He then recorded and broadcast a 14 minute video in which he displayed his father’s severed head and explained why he, a self described militia leader, would commit such a heinous crime against his father who’s supposed transgression was merely working for the federal government for 20…
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Abortion Policy Around The World: A Guide
Abortion Policy Around The World: A Guide
Abortion Policy Map from the Center for Reproductive Rights This is a guide to help us learn about the diversity of abortion policy around the globe. It a resource which I hope will help many of us clarify our own policy preferences and become better advocates or neighbors in how we discuss this topic with one another. What It Is This is a tool to help us look outside of our country (the…
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Bid All Our Sad Divisions Cease
Bid All Our Sad Divisions Cease "It seems no coincidence that revisiting all of this enters our life just as we begin to turn our eyes and tune our ears to the longing of the prophets for the coming of the King."
We are finishing up addressing our Christmas cards.
I have started to see this little tradition as a discipline of grace, gratitude, and outreach.
For me it is a miniature act of relational jubilee, an opportunity to reach out and say thank you for whatever you have done to bring us together in the past or the present.
Somehow, in spite of many moves and in spite of growing far apart…
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Excuse Me, I'm Talking
Excuse Me, I’m Talking
Something I never heard from people more conservative than myself, at any stage of my life – outside of a college classroom – directed at me or others:
“Well, why do you think like that? How did you come to that conclusion? Why are you upset? Why did you change your mind? Why do you see that differently than me?”
Never.
Something I hardly ever heard from these same people if I notified…
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Abuse of Power Is a Real Thing
Abuse of Power Is a Real Thing
So here’s a story that has been on my heart:
In my senior year a new VP for Student Life was brought on board to try to solve these problems. Now, I was probably not the easiest student leader to understand or deal with for a lot of reasons many of you can probably guess. I have always had a bit of a revolutionary streak in me and I’m not the best at applying that wisely.
So around comes…
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You Always Have A Choice: A 2020 Presidential Voter Guide
You Always Have A Choice: A 2020 Presidential Voter Guide
Four years ago I published a comprehensive guide to the 2016 Presidential Election. In the same spirit I offer this similar guide for 2020, but with a caveat: I already know who I will vote for and I write this guide with my decision in mind. That said, I will try to offer what I think are the best arguments for and against each option.
There is a noticeable absence of a major candidate listed…
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Our Dysfunctional Family Values: On Believe Me by John Fea
Our Dysfunctional Family Values: On Believe Me by John Fea
There is nothing quite so painful nor so beautiful as delving into the study of your own family. Where there are wounds or unresolved questions, such study becomes all the more necessary yet somewhat halting and – even, at times – haunting. As Oscar Wild wrote in his classic The Picture of Dorian Grey, “I can’t help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can…
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Reversing Roles: The Clinton Presidency that Wasn't
Reversing Roles: The Clinton Presidency that Wasn’t
Nearly one month into the young presidency of Hillary Clinton, The Wall Street Journal publishes reports that Huma Abedin, now working as a Senior Advisor in the White House, is currently under investigation by the FBI for unreported ties to Iran and Iranian lobbyists. It is also reported that the Iranians knew certain payments and meetings were left off of Abedin’s security clearance…
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In Memoriam: Christina Grimmie, My Friend
Today we remember, celebrate, mourn, and hope. #CGforever #TeamGrimmie #GrammyForGrimmie
Christina with my Grandmother at my wedding My wedding reception had just finished and I was trying to get back to my room to change shoes. After hobbling up a flight of stairs with throbbing feet and a cumbersome dress I realized that I did not have a card key to access the lodge hallway where the bridal party rooms were located. As I was debating if I could make it back downstairs on my own,…
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Learning from the Women of Buckhannon: A Conservative's Reflection on the Legacy of the Women's March
Learning from the Women of Buckhannon: A Conservative’s Reflection on the Legacy of the Women’s March
A PBS NewsHour feature published this week focuses on the small but growing movement of women protesting the policies of the Trump administration in the heart of self-proclaimed Trump country: Buckhannon, West Virginia. I find this article inspiring for two reasons. First, it is a heartening example for anyone who finds themselves holding a minority position within their community, or to those…
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Proceed With Caution: National Division, President Trump, and Bull Run
Proceed With Caution: National Division, President Trump, and Bull Run
It is not lost on me this week that I live but a few miles from the site of the first battle of our civil war. No doubt the creek I stare at each day from my kitchen windows was once trod by both the blue and the gray; men who shared the kinship of country and yet also the enmity of war. We like to think our current world is too refined, too developed, and too safe to see such sights again in…
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Wilderness Voices: Repent
A crucial message of the Biblical prophets was for the people to repent. But is this a message we still need to hear today? I know I’ve been to plenty of services, prayer meetings, and small groups where the subject was repentance. Only I’m pretty sure at these events I mostly heard about and prayed for other people’s sins. Often labeled as the sins of the entire culture or nation, and…
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Wilderness Voices: The American Church In the Age of Trump
Wilderness Voices: The American Church In the Age of Trump
We are a generation that yearns to feel significant and successful. A people who see themselves as destined for greatness. A nation that believes our unique qualities represent some special place in the gospel narrative. Perhaps not all these notions are wrong in certain forms, but in recent years we often made an idol out of our own greatness on multiple levels: personally, institutionally, and…
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O Come Emmanuel: After November 8th, 2016
We look around at our world right now and there is so much that breaks hearts, plays on fears, and isolates those who are different than ourselves. Many this week legitimately question if they are really welcome in this country or their communities. Others rightly fear if they are safe in a world where violent protests follow the outcome of a lawful and legitimate election. On the right and the…
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