Recently, a video of fish raining from the sky in Georgia went viral on social media. If you were discerning enough, you could tell the video was AI-generated and not real. But what's unnerving is that if you did a quick Google search about it, the AI summary told you that this story was, in fact, r...

My friend Andrew DeCort recently wrote an article in which he used the phrase "the trauma of survival." He was writing about the attacks on Iran and our country's obsession with power over others through violence. Here was the sentence in which the phrase jumped out to me:

The dear people of Iran

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There's a significant difference between a cross on a shield, a cross hanging on the wall, and a real-life cross used for crucifixion. The first is an image to rally a fight, the second is an image to provide comfort, and the third is an instrument of suffering. And it turns out that the way we see ...

Admittedly, I'm not a fan of country music. I often think of Bob Newhart's joke about it: "I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for those who like country music, denigrate means to 'put down.'"

I don't even know who Charley Crockett is. But I recently saw a qu...

When was the last time you heard the phrase "All lives matter?"

My wife and I noticed we don't hear it as much these days, and couldn't remember the last time we'd seen it (although I still see numerous U.S. flag stickers with a blue line).

It was only a few years ago that the phrase "All lives ma...

Adam Serwer recently coined the term neighborism to describe "a commitment to protecting the people around you, no matter who they are or where they came from." It stems from the beautiful resistance we've seen in Minneapolis in response to the horrific othering of our government against vulnerable ...

Tony Campolo, the pastor and author famous for calling people to take Jesus' words seriously, once said this:

I have three things I’d like to say today. First, while you were sleeping last night, 30,000 kids died of starvation or diseases related to malnutrition. Second, most of you don’t give a

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Not too long ago, I heard Dr. Reggie Williams offer a profound analogy for our times. He talked about swimming in above-ground pools as a child. One of his favorite things to do was to walk around the pool and get the water to flow in one direction. If he did this with his friends, it created a powe...

I don't normally do movie reviews, but after numerous people asked me what I thought of Wake Up Dead Man, I figured I should give it a watch. It's my first Knives Out movie, so I wasn't sure what I was getting into. When the movie begins with a young priest (Father Jud) who is reassigned to work wit...

A couple of my kids have gotten into a new toy called a Bitzee. If you're unfamiliar with this latest fad, it's a digital pet or character you take care of. When I was a child, we had something similar in the form of the Tamagachis. One of my kids is taking care of dogs while another has dinosaurs. ...