Put your hands together and bow your heads. Let’s talk about prayer and our politics. I really want to understand. During the third of the Jan. 6 House Hearings on June 16, there was a moment where Rep. …

Why do I feel vindicated? How did a few hours of testimony and video from the January 6th House Committee cause so much relief to bubble up to the surface from some troubled place inside of me? Because, contrary to what Kevin McCarthy says, I was not responsible for the…

Wow, you really feel things, don’t you? Yes, I do. Are you, like, an empath? I used to feel pride when I was in conversations like this. Yes! Yes! I am a deeply feeling person. Isn’t that great? But now, not so much. These days I say to myself something…

Please help me understand. This is directly from the manifesto of the racist mass murderer who terrorized a Buffalo grocery store last weekend; it’s based on the ones that white supremacists have been passing along as they plan and then execute their heinous acts: Why did you target those people…

During Easter weekend I was in line at a Walgreens pharmacy with my niece waiting to get my mother’s prescription. There was one man ahead of us, who turned to us to chat. “Happy Easter,” he said pleasantly. I smiled and said it back. “It’s too bad people don’t know…

When Hillary Clinton was introduced (as if she needed to be) to a packed room at the 9/11 Memorial and Museum on a recent evening, the room erupted in sustained applause at the mention of how many votes she received in the 2016 presidential election. Much to my surprise, as…

In the course of an hour, Chip and Joanna Gaines transform a property into a dreamy home. With Magnolia Network at our disposal, we can now see them do it over and over. I don’t know about you, but new suggestions for viewing aren’t landing on me right now. I’m…

“The teal eternity of the Atlantic Ocean had severed them so completely from what had once been their home that it was as if nothing had ever existed before, as if everything and everyone they cherished had simply vanished from the earth.” That paragraph in The 1619 Project: A New…

To borrow some phrasing from Salt-N-Pepa, let’s talk about speech, ba-by. Let’s talk about you and me. Let’s talk about all the good things and the bad things that may be. Maybe you read that lede and thought it was clever. Good, keep reading. Perhaps you read it and thought…