Spoiler alert: their ‘Christian’ values are way different than mine — After having paid our dues to a religious healthcare cost sharing plan for almost 4 years, we’re making our escape — right as the Religious Right and Christian nationalists begin imposing their will on the rest of us across the country. Some escape, it feels like. How it all began When we moved to…

No wonder they go so well together — The January 6th hearings have just wrapped up for the summer after airing eight televised hearings over the last month and a half. These hearings are the product of over a year of investigation by the committee. If you are a politics nerd like me, you’ve probably been trying to…

When existential anxiety, climate change, and the death of democracy collide. — I lay in bed with my toddler at the end of the world.. at least in my anxiety-riddled imagination. Our windows flash with nonstop lightning, the sky gods dump bucketfuls of water on our roof, and the wind whips at what my weather app informs me are 80mph gusts. My…

A frank discussion on mental illness and gun rights reform — Whenever there’s a mass shooting, we hear from the same group of politicians and others who like to avoid the idea of gun regulation: it’s a mental health issue. Mitch McConnell just said this himself after the most recent (at the moment of writing) shooting at Highland Park: that easy…

My religious beliefs say otherwise — If you believe abortion is murder, then I strongly recommend that you not have an abortion. Or at least, what we call an “elective abortion,” where you terminate a pregnancy because you don’t want to be pregnant. …

It’s not crude or callous; it’s a deep respect for the enormity of parenting When the news hit of Roe v. Wade being overturned — even though we fully knew it was about to happen — it still gut-punched me. I was home alone with my baby boy. He suddenly…

How did Jesus turn pro-gun, anyway? — Even back when I was a conservative evangelical Christian, I never understood the Right’s obsession with guns. Being anti-abortion, I was fully on board with. But even though we had guns in one of my parent’s homes — to their credit, safely locked away — even though I had every…

On the nature of God and the nature of women — In order to understand the views of the extreme anti-choice movement, we need to do a deep dive into a certain kind of toxic Christian theology. When I say “extreme,” I mean the people who believe that a fertilized egg has as much personhood as a fully birthed or grown…

Nuanced ways to engage with the anti-choice movement and raise tough questions — If Roe vs. Wade is overturned, as we anticipate it will be, there will be enormous consequences across the country. Everyone and their cousin have a hot take on the Roe leak, so I’ll try to spare you my political ponderings and rehashing all the things that have already been…