By Sarah McCammon A Book Review New York, St. Martin’s Press, 2024 Ever since the 2016 election—and even years before—waves and waves of...

How do you define “Freedom,” the quintessential trademark of America itself? And then—who’s definition of “freedom” is the right one,...

Or, "How to Have a Civil Conversation with Someone Who Disagrees with You" During the next few weeks of the holiday season many of us...

I was standing on the front lawn of Roosevelt Elementary School with my best friend from high school on a Saturday. We had just...

The American Historian, Heather Cox Richardson, makes history come alive so that it pokes its head right up into our current political...

I admire Beth Moore's courage this week as she parted ways with her church denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention, "citing the...

Heather Cox Richardson wrote a cogent blog about how Democracy is Under Siege Around the World. Writing two days ago (Feb. 19, 2021), she...

It’s been several weeks since I’ve pulled up CNN on my tablet for my breakfast of morning news--until this morning. I quickly remembered...

DEMOCRACY REPORT 2020 Produced by V-DEM INSTITUTE (Varieties of Democracy), based at University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Executive Summary...

BRAVER ANGELS NEWS UPDATE "Calling Out or Calling In?” John Wood, Jr. | Braver Angels media@braverangels.org January 17, 2021 "You can...

Podcast series with Brian McLaren, Dr. Jacqui Lewis, and Fr. Richard Rohr Based on McLaren’s ebook, Why Don't They Get It? Weblink to...

In his chapters, “Your Brain on Groups” and “The Press Secretary in Your Mind,” Ezra Klein sets out in his book, Why We're Polarized, to...

Excerpts from Ezra Klein’s book, Why We’re Polarized. Part 2 of 2; Dec 9, 2020 Ezra Klein contends that Americans have not become more...

Excerpts from Ezra Klein’s book, Why We’re Polarized. Part 1 of 2, Dec 7, 2020 Ezra Klein does a masterful job in peeling back layer upon...

October 22, 2020 Patrick Kahnke, in his recent book, MAGA Seduction, helped me understand my frustration when trying to have a reasonable...

Sunday, February 22, 2009 I just finished watching Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger being interviewed on ABC’s “This Week with George...

I just stared reading MAGA Seduction: Resisting the Debasement of the Christian Conscience, by Patrick Kahnke. Pat is a local St. Paul...

I just ordered the book, MAGA Seduction: Resisting the Debasement of the Christian Conscience, by Patrick Kahnke. Pat was a pastor in St....

The following Forward to Patrick Kahnke's recent book, MAGA Seduction: Resisting the Debasement of the Christian Conscience, was written...