Culture
What’s going on, who we are, and what the big deal is.
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‘Rules for Revolutionaries’ and for Leaders
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9 min read
At once, Becky Bond and Zack Exley’s book, Rules for Revolutionaries: How Big Organizing Can Change Everything is both manifesto and history. It mines the revolutionary approach to campaigning they pioneered for Sen. Bernie Sanders in 2015 and early 2016 to build a template for organizing and campaigning in the future. They invite people to recognize how…
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Stop Falling For the Cult of the Perfect Leader
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7 min read
“We have a new bishop!” I proudly declared on Sunday morning, announcing the weekend’s big event: when nearly 1,500 people gathered to ordain the 11th Bishop of Indianapolis, the Rt. Rev. Jennifer Baskerville-Burrows. “And right now she’s claiming her seat.” And because I refuse to pass up such perfect opportunities to preach, I took the…
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Don’t you feel like we’re misunderstanding each other? Not just about political correctness, but about everything? Like every word we say is fundamentally misconstrued? Maybe it’s political correctness itself: the pathological boogeyman of the late ’80s. Back then, we mocked it with books like Politically Correct Fairy Tales. Now we just have outrage and even violence. But blaming…
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Ignoring the Human Cost to Public Safety is Immoral
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6 min read
I recognize the impulse. Sometimes I feel it too. The burden of other people’s junk and the siren song of liberty. The idea that the human cost is too hard to measure against the bottom line. And it’s argument has real merit. Too many rules do cut into our ability to innovate, create, and thrive.…
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‘Logan’ and the Cult of the Eternal Present
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8 min read
I remember the first time I experienced the death of a hero in a comic book. It was Cypher. I was all of 8 years old or so. And my comic was The New Mutants. It was a few months after I picked up my first issue, just in time for “The Fall of the…
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A culture war? You and I have our political-church landscape wrong. And we’re making it worse. Here’s how we fix it: we speak the truth.