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The World Said “Never Again” but is ignoring the deliberate drowning and starving of an entire city full of Christians.
Trump is silent. American Christian Leaders are Silent. Our Congressmen and Senators are Silent. If you asked most Americans to point to Oleshky on a map, you would likely be met with blank stares. Before the war, it was a quiet riverfront town in southern Ukraine, nestled along the sandy banks of the Dnipro River,…
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Documented Russian War Crimes in Ukraine: A Timeline of Atrocities and Violations (2022-Present)
Since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Russia’s military has systematically violated international humanitarian law, committing a horrifying array of war crimes that shock the global conscience. From the deliberate targeting of civilians and critical infrastructure to the reported use of chemical weapons, widespread torture, and the abduction of children, the evidence of…
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Trump Undermines American Moral Authority While Worsening the Risk of World War.
For nearly eighty years, the global reach of the United States did not rest solely on the power of its naval fleets, the reach of its currency, or the sheer size of its consumer economy. It was anchored by an organizing idea: that power, to be enduring, must be tethered to principle. American hegemony was…
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Rediscovering Jesus’ Radical Love for the Marginalized & Persecuted
Jesus challenged the status quo. Too often his followers defend it. The modern world can be difficult, given all the violence, systemic exploitation, and unhealed trauma. From abuse and chronic emotional anguish to the acute terrors of famine, forced displacement, and war; human suffering casts an inescapable shadow across our global landscape. Over 120 million…
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On Ukraine, Global Outrage Is Missing. Yet American Religious & Moral Leaders are M.I.A.
“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”— Dietrich Bonhoeffer In the occupied river town of Oleshky, intentionally flooded by up to 33 feet of water when Russia dynamited a local dam, reports detail a deliberate,…
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War is terrible, but some things are even more terrible.
Refusing to resist evil is worse than war itself. A few summers ago, a paper wasp began constructing a nest in the eaves above my front door. In my youth, I would have knocked it down without a second thought or reached for a can of pesticide. But I stood on the porch, watched the…
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Reclaiming Its Lost Voice: The Church’s Indispensable Role as the Conscience of the State
In an era defined by institutional distrust and acute political polarization, the question of faith’s presence in the public square has returned with urgent force. The debate is typically framed as a binary choice: either a severe, quietist retreat behind sanctuary walls, or an aggressive, partisan crusade to capture the levers of government. Both paths…
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Donald Trump’s campaign owes $800,000+ in unpaid debts to cities, with some bills dating back to 2016.
There is a familiar cadence to a modern political spectacle. The chartered jet touches down on the tarmac; the motorcade sweeps past closed highway exits; the stadium reverberates with arena rock; and the candidate takes the podium to praise the virtues of the American worker and pledge unyielding allegiance to the men and women in…
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Winston Churchill on Ukraine, and How Trump Channels Neville Chamberlain
My friends, I stand before you today not as a man of my own time, but as a ghost of history, compelled to speak to the urgent peril that now confronts us. Across the vast plains of Eastern Europe, a darkness has fallen, reminiscent of the gravest shadows that once threatened to extinguish the very…
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The Trump Administration’s War on Native Americans
The Trump administration’s hostility toward Native Americans is easy to miss because it rarely announces itself as overt hostility. It arrives in the language of efficiency, patriotism, public order, energy independence, and administrative reform. It appears as a budget cut, a removed exhibit, a bulldozed mountainside, a border waiver, a threatened investigation, or a staffing…
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The United Houma Nation: The Louisiana Nation the U.S. Refuses to See
The United Houma Nation does not need to become a tribe. It has been one for centuries. Its people lived along the waterways of southern Louisiana before the United States existed, before the state of Louisiana joined the Union, and before the oil industry began slicing canals through the marshes. The Houma survived colonial conquest,…
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Russia’s Targeting of Civilians & Abuse of Detainees: Evidence of a Systematic War-Crimes Policy
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has produced extensive evidence of unlawful killings, attacks on civilians, arbitrary detention, torture, sexual violence, and the mistreatment and execution of prisoners of war (POWs). Although each incident must be investigated individually, the repetition of similar abuses across multiple regions, detention facilities, and Russian state institutions indicates more than isolated…
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Warning for an Age of Internet Algorithms and Psychological Manipulation
In the frenetic currents of modern digital life, where information proliferates at warp speed and opinions calcify into tribes, it is easy to feel a disquieting sense of déjà vu. We observe well-meaning individuals, seemingly intelligent and capable, falling prey to narratives that defy logic, embracing misinformation, and rejecting dialogue. The instinct might be to…
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U.S. Christian Nationalism’s Historical Echo in Nazi Germany
How a century-old German movement revealed the perennial blueprint for trading the Gospel for political power. In the spring of 1933, the vast majority of German Protestant clergy were not monsters, nor did they consider themselves enemies of the Christian faith. They were, by their own reckoning, its desperate guardians. Reeling from the humiliating defeat…
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Dolly Parton’s Kind Acts and Statements, Detailed
Many entertainers leave behind performances. Dolly Parton left behind permissions: permission to be flamboyant, poor, religious, ambitious, funny, feminine, strange, tender, successful, or different. Her kindness and acceptance of others set Dolly apart from most. Dolly Parton leaves behind an extraordinary catalog of music, films, business ventures, jokes, wigs, rhinestones and self-deprecating one-liners. But the…
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What Ronald Reagan Would Say on the War in Ukraine: Russia’s War Crimes and Defiance of International Law in Ukraine
Good evening, Tonight, I want to speak to you not just about a conflict taking place on distant shores, but about a profound challenge to the very foundations of liberty, decency, and the civilized world order. For over four years, the eyes of humanity have been fixed on Ukraine, a proud nation whose people yearn…
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A Psychologist on How Members of the Press Can Stop Abuse Directed at Them by Trump.
The relationship between political power and the press is fundamentally adversarial by design, yet the modern White House briefing room has frequently devolved from a forum of accountability into an arena of spectacle and hostility. Under Donald Trump, the traditional friction between political figures and the fourth estate shifted from policy disputes to direct, targeted,…
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Donald Trump’s America Through the Lens of Desmond Tutu
When the world remembers Archbishop Desmond Tutu, it remembers a giggle that could disarm tyrants, a dance that could lift the spirits of the brokenhearted, and a moral clarity that cut through the thickest fogs of political expediency. He was a man who famously described himself as a “prisoner of hope,” a prophet who looked…
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Media “Business as Usual” Elected Donald Trump and Helps Elect MAGA Politicians
The Media still does not know how to cover Trump or MAGA in a way that shows their true threat to freedom and the rule of law. “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false,…
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Trump’s Assault on International Law Threatens Peace and Encourages War Crimes
For nearly eight decades, global peace and stability have rested on a fragile, hard-won conviction: that the power of nations must be bound by a shared framework of law. Born from the devastation of World War II, this rules-based order—anchored by the United Nations Charter, the Geneva Conventions, and a network of human rights treaties—was…
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The Christian Mandate: Treating Immigrants and LGBTQ persons with respect and with dignity.
“We were not put on this earth to make life harder for one another. Our real purpose in life is to make life better for one another.” These profound words encapsulate the very essence of Christian living – a calling deeply rooted in Christian compassion and social justice. At its core, the Christian faith is…
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American Workers Have Less Power & Fewer Rights Than Workers in Other Advanced Democracies.
This Harms Americans and Depresses Wages. In France, a strike is not treated as a civic emergency. It is treated as part of civic life. Trains stop, schools close, fuel depots slow, and the country argues—loudly, publicly, and often angrily—about the terms on which ordinary people should be expected to live. In the United States,…
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Challenging the Myth of the White Jesus
The standard representation of Jesus in the West is more than just a historically incorrect portrait. It has subtly conditioned generations of believers to associate Caucasian features with sacredness and purity. For a vast number of people, their initial encounter with Christ does not occur through reading scripture or hearing a sermon, but through a…