An incredible read from Dana Schwartz:

After Candidate Drumpf’s tweeted an anti-Hillary Clinton graphic that included a Star of David over the weekend, Dana Schwartz wrote this. It’s worth the read. And, if you’re interested, here’s the inside story of that essay. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that Candidate Drumpf would be comfortable with Nazi imagery. He is, after all, …

Is Donald Trump a Christian?

The presumptive Republican candidate for President has said he is a Presbyterian, and that the Bible is his favorite book (though from the video above, he has a weird way of showing it, by pronouncing the source of a verse as “Two Corinthians,” when any half-assed Biblical scholar knows it’s pronounced “Second Corinthians.”)(She said.) But his closed-door-closed-mind …

On Mississippi’s ignorant new law

This week, Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant signed a law that allows people who don’t want to do business with gays and lesbians and other in the LGBTQI community to discriminate and call it “religious freedom.” “Religious freedom,” my ass. Baby Jesus is crying, Mississippi. So in the middle of all this crud, I happened to hear this …

You can’t be a racist and a Christian

I love Ben Harper and here is partly why.

Atticus was a racist?

With “Go Set a Watchman” now available to the rest of us — and not just rarefied book reviewers — will you read it? I am all for knowing what’s out there to be known, but I cannot overstate the impact “To Kill a Mockingbird” had on my thinking. I read it the summer I …

Who owns the women?

I am stealing this idea from Sharon, who brought it up, but an overlooked portion of the horrible rampage that killed nine people in the basement of the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C. was a statement the suspect, Dylann Roof, was supposed to have made as an explanation for his crime. He is supposed …