Emotional regulation doesn’t require stifling emotional expression. In fact, good regulation recognizes the proper place to express emotions. And a wedding is an appropriate place if any.

Then just do an immigration bill. Burying it behind cutting Medicaid and tax cuts for the rich and increasing the deficit make it seem that is simply fodder to get the base to accept awful bill.

If your idea of helping people who are hurting is to keep other hurting people out, you may need to reevaluate your moral compass.

Christian Nationalists are reverse Jonah’s. Caught in the same “storm” as everyone else, Christian Nationalists believe the way to stop the storm is to throw everyone else overboard. There is no self-reflection or responsibility for the chaos.

Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Alligator Alcatraz sounds like an exhibit designed by the Tiger King.

'Vacations.' The word is 'vacations.'

The practice might be legally fine, but will be spiritually devastating.

Example 152737271 of how governments will twist scripture to their end. Because also Isaiah: “They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not take up sword against nation, nor will they train for war anymore.”

Discussing and being concerned about the intersection of faith and politics in a public forum is a far cry from endorsing specific candidates from the pulpit in worship.

If we can't tell the story of the people of God and find ourselves siding with the strangers, refugees, and exiles, as the stories of Scripture so commonly do, we should probably do some serious and urgent soul-searching.

“You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.” Alexander Solzhenitsyn

"Why do black people always seem stuck in the past and can't move on from talking about slavery and Jim Crow?"

Just saw someone in Indiana with a picture of Jeffrey Epstein hanging from their rear view mirror. Things are going so well for our society.

The algorithm is making a statement tonight.

Wilson is a case study in how being orthodox on a narrow set of beliefs atones for the sins of so much awful theology.

His love is his glory and he is glorified because he loves. They’re not separate.

The older I get, the less interested I am in theological territorial fights and the more I believe the Bible isn’t as categorically near as often presented. I’m forgiven because of Jesus. “How” doesn’t make a hill of beans difference to me. That I am is what really matters.

I distinctly remember evangelical groups advocating the national boycott of Walden books because they sold pornography and standing against a president who was a sexual predator about 30 years ago. Now, evangelicals only oppose one of those things.

Counterpoint: you are only in control of your response to the vast amount of life that you cannot control.