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The Lie Behind “Don’t Tread on Me”
Seeing the Gadsden flag flown outside an occupied Capitol building reveals the lie behind its words: “Don’t tread on me”. They trod. Which transforms the message. Long used as a Libertarian call to arms, this flag has meant to express a sense of rugged, but equal independence. But under its surface, there has always been…
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How to avoid solving a problem
Protests are an opportunity to hear from the powerless. They aren’t a problem that needs to be fixed.
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James Lloyd Breck
It is easy to dwell on accomplishments – especially when they are truly great – and miss the truth behind them: it isn’t about us.
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You Can’t Make Me
The problem with the phrase, you can’t make me, is not whether it’s true. The problem is that the very idea is fundamentally unjust.
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Jesus Ascended
In Jesus Ascended, Scott Douglas explores Jesus’s Ascension – a theological concept Christians routinely profess and almost never think about.
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Between — Back to John the Baptist
All this jumping around in the lectionary is making me dizzy. Now we’re back to John the Baptist. But a question remains unanswered.
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Hawks and Doves
The keen hawk is too flattering an image for those who perpetually push for war. We need something far more short-sighted.
