There are lessons for Americans to learn from what’s going on in Israel. One starting point is this 2024 book, Diary of a Crisis: Israel in Turmoil. The book began as essentially a daily notebook of political life in 2023...
Things got really interesting Tuesday, Oct. 27,, at a court hearing on the controversial transgender mailers and text messages sent across Texas last week. The quest to unmask whoever is behind the multimillion dollar effort to scare parents to vote…
I read through this year’s platform of the Republican Party of Texas in horror. It is really, really bad. And then I wondered if it always had been this bad. Have the state party’s legislative priorities changed in any way…
America lost more than a labor leader today. We lost a moral giant, a fearless organizer and one of the most influential Latina women of the 20th and 21st centuries. Dolores Clara Fernández Huerta died at her Bakersfield, Calif., home…
A Guardian column written by V (formerly Eve Ensler) has been circulating among friends. Her criticism of our nation’s patriarchy, which she calls “psychopatriarchy,” struck a chord. Recognizing the horror and anguish that women (as well as men) in my…
Last week, I attended a conference on rural poverty. It was the annual meeting of Together for Hope, a coalition of nonprofits scattered from the North Carolina coast west to the Four Corners region and from Northern Minnesota to the…
Multiracial democracy demands an understanding of the tension between civil rights and religious liberty and the willingness to engage in difficult conversations to protect the rights of everyone, according to Maya Wiley. The civil rights attorney gave the keynote address…
An angry face ranted to me after a Sunday morning worship at the church I served between 1994 and 2002 in Knoxville, Tenn. He was railing about a mutual friend who led a student ministry at the University of Tennessee…
If indeed the greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist, his next best trick was convincing the church to follow something other than Jesus. As evidence, look no further than the stranglehold white Christian…
The easily predictable hullaballoo over 12 Roman Catholic bishops being videoed and photographed with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on the cusp of a historic election continues to build steam. Some of the bishops have formally apologized and…
In 2024, Donald Trump made significant inroads among young men compared with his previous campaigns. Young women, however, remained among the voters least likely to vote for Trump, resulting in a wider gender gap among young voters than among men and women…
There are lessons for Americans to learn from what’s going on in Israel. One starting point is this 2024 book, Diary of a Crisis: Israel in Turmoil. The book began as essentially a daily notebook of political life in 2023…
Two hundred fifty years ago, enslaved Baptists founded a church. This month, Colonial Williamsburg gave them their building back. In 1776, on the outskirts of Williamsburg, free and enslaved Black Virginians began congregating for worship in defiance of laws that restricted such…
