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The Golden Donald: A Calf by Any Other Name
Let me set the scene for you. A gleaming gold statue of Donald Trump — fist raised to the heavens,…
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Vanity, Thy Name Is Randy (And I’m Embracing Her)
I am turning 58 next Thursday, and I have decided I want abs. Not metaphorical abs. Not “abs are made…
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The Fruit Doesn’t Lie
Conservative Evangelical Christianity taught me that you could identify a true Christian by their fruit. It’s right there in Galatians…
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My Story, Out Loud
Last week I sat down with my friend Joe Brummer for his podcast, and we talked. Not just about the…
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Where Does He Find the Time? (A Confession)
Someone asked me recently where I’ve been finding all this extra time to write. It’s a fair question. The posts…
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The Extra Seat at the Table
I was nineteen years old, homeless, living out of my car, and seriously considering whether staying alive was worth the…
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What 12 Years Can Do
There’s a photo on my phone from April 28, 2014. I’m grinning at the camera like everything is fine. Wide…
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The Ballroom, the Bullets, and the Bullsh**ter-in-Chief
Well, good morning, Mugwumps. Pour yourself some strong coffee, because this past weekend was a Lot. In case you somehow…
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The Enemy Who Was Never There
I had a moment Wednesday that cracked something open in me — the quiet kind of crack, not the dramatic…
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Mandusa and the Snake Named Bruce
There is a very specific kind of evening that starts completely normal and ends with you standing in your backyard…
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The Prophet of Whatever You Want to Hear
I spent over twenty years inside the religious right. Not as a casual Family Research Council/CPAC/Exodus International/and others supporter —…
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Thrive–The Calm I Didn’t Know I’d Found
Thrive is a space where I write honestly about navigating life with full presence — the joy, the grief, the…
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The Diesel Gospel (And the Stranger Who Saved Dan’s Truck)
It was 1:30 in the morning. We had just landed in Orlando after an epic vacation that had wrung me…
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The Algorithm and I Are in a Toxic Relationship
Listen, I clicked one article — one — about something I genuinely cared about. Within 48 hours, my newsfeed had…
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I Will Not Let Them Have This Too
Thrive is a space where I write honestly about navigating life with full presence — the joy, the grief, the…