Dear America: Meet Bernie Sanders. Properly, this time.

Time to set the record straight.

To My Friends Who Have Not Posted, Acknowledged, Shared or Commented About the Tragedy in Charleston

[Edit: June 20th — I wrote this very soon after the shootings occured. I was in a raw state of despair. Since then, I have realized that these words, although…

She’s campaigning like it’s 2004 all over again.

Bear with me a moment. I’ll start with the product of Hillary Clinton — who she actually is and what she…

the problem with “tolerance”

Introduction: I am a Western-raised, middle class, light-complexioned female. These facts mean I was raised with a specific set of beliefs about the world. I have lived in no other skin.

touching down.

“What a relief to have you back”

My loved ones keep telling me how relieved they are to “have me back,” telling me how good it is to see me, at last, “safe and sound” on American soil. I can understand the sentiment — we always feel some inexplicable comfort in proximity, in…

Religious Education, Secularism, Same-Sex Marriage, and a Partridge in a Pear Tree

Sermon on Father’s Day: Charleston, My White Privilege, & Racism in America

Why Do We Need Equality?

I have always viewed the goal of equality to be a self-evident truth. I believe in equality because it makes sense, irrespective of whatever thing it is that is being fought for.

Today, I was asked by a good friend, in a purely curious and non malicious…

Your gun control argument is wrong.

I had this conversation with my students once, and now I’m going to have it with you. To start…