Tag: politics

  • Believing in the Justice of God

    Believing in the Justice of God

    In the resurrection, God reveals the power isn’t in condemnation and oppression, but in restoring life and building the blessed community.

  • The Freedom of God

    The Freedom of God

    In the fourth chapter of Stand Your Ground, Douglas explores the nature of God as freedom revealed in the exodus and manifest in the gospel.

  • Perpetual War

    Perpetual War

    At the heart of Manifest Destiny is a tragic truth: it creates perpetual war on non-whiteness.

  • Congress – the only place it is worse to be called a racist than to be a racist

    Congress – the only place it is worse to be called a racist than to be a racist

    In a recent exchange in Congress, Representatives Tlaib and Meadows reveal the way rules and racism coexist.

  • Our Exceptional Racism

    Our Exceptional Racism

    Douglas establishes that it isn’t about a singular Florida law that should concern us, but the culture which creates it.

  • Speaking is acting

    Speaking is acting

    We’ve made a faulty conclusion: that speaking isn’t acting. We couldn’t be more wrong.

  • When our need to protect the powerful actually preserves division

    When our need to protect the powerful actually preserves division

    We treat our divisions like conundrums: unsolvable and eternal. They’re neither. We just need to take their depth more seriously.

  • Fair Play

    Fair Play

    You’re never the big winner. That’s Brett. He always wins. You watch as he deals the cards. He must be really good. Relatively speaking though, you’re not half bad. Your pile of chips is modest (it always seems to be). In the end, you’re pretty used to walking away with a little more than you…