Dear United Methodist Church: Do The Right Thing — Let The Bigots Leave.
Leadership from the United Methodist Church will gather this week in St. Louis for a Special Session of the General Conference. Usually the General Conference only happens once every four years, but...
View ArticleNow That The United Methodist Church Has Voted, Here Are A Few Things To...
What kind of a dork spends three days (and a whole box of Kleenex) watching the livestream of a denominational conference for a Church he doesn’t even attend, you ask? Well, the answer is THIS kind of...
View Article6 Things You Can Say To Let Your Server Know You’re A Horrible Tipper
I have worked as a server in a restaurant for a really long time. Seriously… Like, just a ridiculously long time. Some might say “an embarrassingly long time.” And if working as a server has taught me...
View ArticleThis Is How Much A Billion Dollars Is…
If you made $50k a year, and you didn’t ever spend one penny of it — you just put that money into safe keeping and saved it up — do you know how long you would have to work to save up a BILLION...
View ArticleIn Tennessee, Teaching Kids About Inclusion Is Now “Radical Leftist...
Just south of Nashville, Tennessee, there is one of the wealthiest counties in the nation: Williamson County. It is a county whose population “coincidentally” swelled right around the same time the...
View ArticleConfessions of A Creepy Hugger: Thoughts About Joe Biden and Me
For as long as I can remember, I have been a “hugger.” And growing up in a family who wasn’t particularly physically affectionate, I kind of stood out. At my grandfather’s funeral, one of my great...
View ArticleFour Reasons Why School Vouchers Are A Terrible Idea
I have spent the last five mornings standing next to the road in front of my kids’ school to show my support for the public school teachers who give their time and energy to teach my weird little kids...
View ArticleIt Won’t Be Long Until This Administration Starts Killing People
After the Mueller Report was released, and people got to read for themselves (redacted as it was) the OVERWHELMING evidence of Trump’s attempts to obstruct justice, Donald (as he often does) took to...
View ArticleShare This With A Trump-Supporting “Christian”
I know it can be easy to forget all of the thousands of things which — on a daily basis — prove that Donald Trump is an objectively awful, morally bankrupt human being. It’s too overwhelming to keep...
View ArticleMen Aren’t Making Enough Noise About These New Abortion Laws
This includes me. I have been too quiet, and I’m sorry. The vast majority of the noise I have heard and seen has come from women. Which makes some sense, I suppose — These oppressive laws are...
View ArticleGod Is Pro-Abortion
Think about it: ONE IN FIVE pregnancies ends in a miscarriage… Or as the medical community refers to them, a “spontaneous abortion.” The Mayo Clinic says that the number is likely higher than that,...
View ArticleFor Memorial Day, The U.S. Army Asked, “How Has Serving Impacted You?” It Did...
Over this Memorial Day weekend, the U.S. Army posted a PR video of a soldier telling about how his service has changed him. He said that it allowed him to “serve something greater than myself… The Army...
View ArticleHarvard Admissions, and How To Tell If You’re Racist
It seems that many conservatives are outraged over the fact that Harvard University has rescinded its invitation to Marjory Stoneman Douglas Shooting survivor & “conservative activist” Kyle Kashuv....
View ArticleThe Deep Racism Of Trump’s “Go Back” Comment, and How It’s As American As...
Most of us have heard by now that the President of the United States has gone FULL RACIST this weekend. To the absolute delight of white supremacists everywhere, Donald Trump suggested that U.S...
View ArticleICE Tried To Arrest An Immigrant Family. Their Neighbors Made A Human Chain...
Today, in a the Tennessee town of Hermitage (a suburb of Nashville), Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) attempted to arrest and detain an immigrant man who was with his son. The man KNEW HIS...
View ArticleThe Not-So-Subtle Sexism of Team Sports Names
“Do you go to a doctor? Or a LADY doctor…” “Did you get pulled over by a police officer? Or by a LADY police officer…” “Does your church have a pastor? Or a LADY pastor…” Imagine if asking questions...
View ArticleThe Bat-Shit Crazy, Theocratic Man Running For Mayor Of Grand Rapids
I grew up in Michigan. West Michigan, to be more precise. I spent my youth in a sheltered, idyllic little tourist beach town on the shore of Lake Michigan, and when it was time for college, I didn’t go...
View ArticleImpeachment, For Those Of You Who Might Be A Little Confused
So listen… I realize there are a lot of folks out there who are confused about what is going on right now with this whole impeachment thing. And tonight, while I was attempting to explain the facts...
View Article5 Analogies To Explain Trump’s Iran Mess
Yesterday the moron who is currently the president of the United States of America stood in front of a microphone, and he slurred and sniffed his way through a rambling mess of a speech about Iran… 58...
View ArticleHere’s How To Tell If Your Church Is Trash
I heard a song today. It gave me hope — Which is something that seems to be increasingly rare these days… ESPECIALLY songs that have anything to do with Jesus or the Church or Christianity. But it...
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