November 6, 2025
Hipster irony is just more of the same: straight (male) resentment and self-righteousness masquerading as progressive politics.
July 6, 2025
Andrew Sullivan follows the SCOTUS majority, naturalizing a conservative theology of sex while masquerading it as liberal neutrality.
April 29, 2025
Democrats fight to secure and defend a boy's right to become a man who desires like a woman/mother. That's the maternal politics we need.
July 18, 2024
Political desire into democracy will not go. Political desire feeds on the ideal. It does not compromise. It hates frustration. It must have exactly what it wants, its ideal, or . . . else. Democracy is perpetually threatened by a people’s political desire. Saint Paul offers us something different: a redeemed political desire.
June 17, 2024
A sermon based on the Gospel of John 19:25-29 (FYI: the word “home” is NOT in the Greek text): * As Jesus is dying on the cross, the disciple he loves—the boy he loves—the one, we are told, who is responsible for the Gospel of John, is on his mind. In the final moments of Jesus’ life, his beloved’s future is his ultimate concern. We don’t know the identity of the man Jesus loved, but what we do know is that he is the only disciple Jesus is explicitly said to have loved. We also know that he is the
A Sermon Based On Deuteronomy 5:12-15 and Mark 2:23-3:6 [5/20/24: Sermon writing is a laborious process, and most clergy spend a lot of time, in the midst of hospital visits, countless meetings and emails, and other obligations, getting it just right. I posted my first draft of this sermon, to be given June 2nd, on May 15th. It has undergone a lot of changes, but I think I am hitting the right notes now. **Guiding statement: I propose to preach that we rest from cruel dominion, from thwarting animal justice and restoration, and to the end of becoming compassionate and
May 3, 2024
Lori Lightfoot’s tenure as Chicago mayor is the subject of Gregory Pratt’s The City Is Up For Grabs, which critiques her leadership as chaotic and ultimately bad for the City of Chicago. Using Lightfoot’s ill-fitting suits as a metaphor, this analysis examines her portrayal as a complex political figure, both empowered and constrained by intersecting social perceptions of gender, race, and authority.
June 3, 2026
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