(And I don't mean just their obsession with honoring statues.) The terror perpetrated by Nazis in Charlottesville is one consequence of divine truthiness. There is a long history of lifting up to the status of God the worst of human vices, like revenge, abuse, and violence. If violent people can say even God engages in detestable vices, then in one move they absolve themselves from the stain of their own abusive actions. It starts with a wholesome intent to express universal

Power and Fear. In Charlottesville, VA, the night of Friday August 11 at the University of Virginia, hundreds of white men (were there any women?) demanded the streets were theirs, demanded that they would not be replaced by Jews, chanted "blood and soil." The next day they chanted "fuck you faggots."These straight white men were moved to demand and prove they have power. In a nation where for hundreds of years straight white men have been the sole proprietors of power, som

Divine truthiness is a collision between the statement, 'God is love,' (1 John 4:8) and terrifying power that does not seem like love at all. When a tragedy occurs, we are left grasping for words. In those grasping moments if we engage in God-talk, our deeply held (sometimes truthy) theology becomes clear. On August 3, 2017, two people died and nine people were injured in a gas explosion that collapsed a large section of Minnehaha Academy in Minneapolis. This is a terrible

As my existence begins to settle into a new normal with stability and an ability to look toward the future, it seems like it is finally time to start blogging again. Earlier this week, on August 1, I was overwhelmed and humbled by the outpouring of support and love from friends, family, and acquaintances as I announced my upcoming book: The End of Divine Truthiness. In the vast flood of well-wishes I was reminded that even in the midst of looming catastrophes, political chaos