June 17, 2025
Here’s the simple truth:
I only have so much time in this beautiful life.
I’m not going to waste another precious second tolerating intolerant stupidity.
June 15, 2025
William G. Goodness wasn’t just a father. He was a force. A storyteller. A traveler. A war hero. A gentleman. A jokester. A man who lived almost a century but was never old a single day in his life.
June 14, 2025
Later today, the nation will witness the Army 250th Anniversary Parade in Washington, D.C. President Donald Trump will transform what should be a solemn and unifying tribute to American military service into a carefully staged celebration of personal power.
June 8, 2025
We all get those tests.
And each time we teach the world how to treat us, we also teach ourselves what we believe we’re worth.
June 6, 2025
Here’s the truth: If you thank God when a stranger helps you buy groceries, you should also curse God when children go to bed starving. If you see the divine in acts of kindness, you must also ask where that same god hides when bullets fly in schools, when floods destroy villages, when injustice becomes policy.
June 4, 2025
When Ronald Reagan assumed the governorship of California in 1967, he brought with him a fundamentally different philosophy, one that viewed education not as a public right but as an economic commodity. His shift wasn’t just about budgets. It was about fear.
June 3, 2025
Oscar Wilde was more than a writer. He was a visionary, a wit, and a romantic who dared to live authentically in a world that condemned him for it. But behind his brilliance was a man broken by the religious and moral codes of his time; codes that saw his love as sin, his identity as shame, and his life as a cautionary tale.
May 18, 2025
If you are convinced that your religious beliefs are truth and that the nation should be governed under God, then you’re probably part of the problem. We would be wise to consider the price we will pay when faith takes away our freedom.
May 15, 2025
Trump’s second term has confirmed what many feared: the rule of law was always conditional and Trump has shown the nation how easily it can be dismantled.
May 14, 2025
America’s immigration system is not just broken; it is riddled with contradictions and racial double standards that erode the nation’s claim to fairness and justice.
May 13, 2025
We all learned it as children: there’s no such thing as a free gift. Every gift comes with a price. Whether it’s a favor, an expectation, or an obligation, someone always pays.
May 9, 2025
Fascism doesn’t rise from monsters. It rises from men and women, many of them parents, who failed to teach their children how to be free.
May 8, 2025
The election of Pope Leo XIV: formerly Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, represents a sharp and necessary moral contrast to the populist nationalism of Donald Trump and the MAGA movement.
May 7, 2025
At the heart of this unraveling is Donald Trump, whose return to the presidency has not only intensified domestic division but also placed America’s financial stability, national security, and global reputation in profound jeopard
May 6, 2025
Progress doesn’t come from the barrel of a gun. It comes from a foundation laid in steel and soul. It comes from a desire to truly lead by example. China has been laying it for decades. The question Carter raised quietly, surgically; is whether we still can.
May 4, 2025
As Catholics around the world mourn the death of a beloved pope, Donald Trump, never one to let solemnity get in the way of self-promotion, stepped into the spotlight dressed as the pope himself, mere days after attending the pope’s funeral in Rome.
May 2, 2025
America was built not on Christianity, but on a profound respect for individual freedom, including freedom of religion.
May 1, 2025
The idea that Christianity must oppose homosexuality is not biblical truth—it’s cultural dogma dressed in scripture. It’s time the Church confronted its error, repented for its cruelty, and embraced the radical love it claims to preach.
April 29, 2025
Throughout Christian history, the image of Jesus has not stood still. It has shifted, evolved, and expanded — not because Jesus himself changed, but because humanity’s needs, fears, and aspirations did. As societies transformed, so too did the Christian imagination, crafting new portraits of Christ that reflected the dominant values of the age.
April 25, 2025
We cannot hope to do business — or live peacefully — in a diverse world where the majority of people have dramatically different religious beliefs if we don’t take the time to understand them and seek common ground.
April 23, 2025
The most un-Christlike candidate in modern political history won, not despite his moral failings, but because of a belief system that discourages questioning and demands obedience.
February 10, 2025
It’s just before 10am on a Thursday, and I’m drinking homemade moonshine whiskey from a communal plastic cup, in a tribal village in Northern Thailand.
January 13, 2025
Turquoise waters so clear you can see clear to the bottom, snacking on fresh grapefruit so sweet, you can’t believe it’s grapefruit accompanied by Pearl singing traditional Polynesian songs while she played the ukelele.
December 24, 2024
