When President W Bush sent my Marine son to war three times (2003-2004) I thought Bush was a fool, but not a dishonorable person. I wrote this in the Washington Post: Before my son became…
Put it this way: How does one talk someone mired in irrational beliefs into accepting fact-based reality? More to the point these days, how does one change a Trump voter’s mind and get her or…
I had never thought about ancestry much until Trump was elected. His fanning the flames of hate for the “other” reminded me that my family goes “way back” in America. Far from that being a…
Photo credit: Gage Skidmore How to define the followers of Trump? Here are 3 ways. Trump supporters are victims of: A pyramid scheme of false hope built on selling empty glitter A desire to share…
I am painting a new series of large canvases—huge for me—deconstructing the failure of fundamentalist religion. I was raised as a missionary pastor’s kid. I tell the story of why I left the evangelical movement…
According to the Donald Trump/Paul Ryan GOP “budget” proposals, Americans are now “free” to live without health insurance…and: without science without a clean environment without racial equality without women’s rights without education without art without…
The Daily Show was an epic fail: irony and snark lost to the reality of Trump, as it were. Trump is president because the left, liberals and especially younger people put their faith in late…
I’m a white male in North America’s upper middle class. This inglorious inheritance of slaveholders, misogynists, and war-makers shapes what I experience and, just as importantly, do not experience—i.e., what black men undergo in our…
Science fiction has made theology interesting once again. The legion fans of Blade Runner and its derivatives or the millions who participate in Star Trek conventions may not have read the Bible or the works…