Most the people I hear from prefer the dog, trees, or poetry of nature columns. I prefer to write those but here we are again: whiteness, maleness, and guns. To see racist paranoia ooze through the … [Read more...]
A Plea Across the Battle Line
Photograph by Laurie Schaull at Creative Commons I am white, male, and affluent by world standards. Still, I know at least a small stab of the knife that Ilhan Omar must feel, and a goodly share of … [Read more...]
The God of Class
Last week in a NYT opinion column deliciously titled, “After Ruining Mayonnaise, Can Millennials Save America?” the author, Timothy Egan, wondered if the soon-to-be largest generation would save us … [Read more...]
Learning From A Perfectly Human and Imperfect Jesus
Link to text for preaching (Gospel of Matthew): http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=155 This sermon, like the story in Matthew that we heard, is bound to challenge an assumption … [Read more...]
Changing Hearts & Minds And Gathering By Class
As the smog begins to thin we can see what’s up. Here are some facts about the presidential election we must account for instead of spitting at it as racist, sexist, or classist (only). It is of … [Read more...]
Getting Rich Off the Rhetorical Pornography of Donald Trump
Who says there is nothing new under the sun? I often find myself speechless these days and for those who know me, that is a strange phenomenon. During the Reagan administration there was no loss of … [Read more...]
Normalizing the conversation on race instead of normalizing racism
“50 Years of Electoral College Maps: How the U.S. Turned Red and Blue” The New York Times, The Upshot, August 22, 2016 “…Race was the major reason the South flipped (from majority Democrat to … [Read more...]
The Struggle Never Ends
It is of little personal satisfaction to be vindicated for the subversivepreacher post of May 5th (https://subversivepreacher.org/to-republicans-i-know-now-is-the-time/) naming the racism, misogyny, … [Read more...]
A Matter of Character
I am racist. I am misogynist. I am homophobic. I am classist. I am not condemned for these facts of my character. From my perch in the top ten percent of income, even though I arrived by an … [Read more...]
A Friday Rant (in place of Prep for Preachers & Hearers)
“It doesn’t happen in other places with the same kind of frequency, and it is in our power to do something about it.” President Obama about the shootings at Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, … [Read more...]