All that’s happening with our government is proof that the historical record of museums and monuments makes for nice photo-ops and a bit of education…but only as far as is convenient. Take the children on a field trip, but don’t let the truth of what is seen make room for introspection. The grandeur and intricate…
Protected: What’s the Word that Matters to You?
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Learning to Protest?
While so many were able to take their No Kings protest to the streets yesterday, I was helping with the second of three sessions of a lunch & learn series my church has organized where we’re unpacking parts of Project 2025. It’s a challenging undertaking, not because we’re trying to become experts on the document…
A Short Tale from Maryland
I wasn’t lost. I had the GPS running as I walked in the neighborhood around my office. At a certain point in all of my mostly right turns, my walk felt circular and all the roads I’ve driven many times looked different enough from my pedestrian point of view to usher in some doubt. I…
Agreements—Abortion (Part 2)
Story time Many years after the fact and many years after last seeing each other, a former classmate told me that she’d had an abortion. As we talked, I remember wondering what life would have been like for her had she felt safe telling me and others—not in a confessional way but in a “Hey,…
Abortion—a Conservative Christian Agreement
I think of Conservative Christian Agreements as ideas about how we should live that have been agreed upon by conservative Christians for the sake of some sort of control. I don’t know all there is to know–I do not at all see myself as an expert. I see myself as an explorer. And in this…
Real Simple Nostalgia (part 2)
For the first time, I’m struck by the excess, the endless invitations on most pages to spend a bunch of money and to figure out a reason why it’s worth it. Even the bagel spread on pages 144 and 145 of December 2021 is wooing me, causing me to wonder how much better my breakfast…