When I look at people, I see mostly good.
Empathy is our strongest currency.
I am not asking you to back down from what you know is right. I am asking you to re-establish empathy.
This isn’t a post about health care policy. It’s about why people keep wanting more free stuff.
I’m proud of both of them. They both served our country (during the Korean War and in the Air Force ROTC). My great-grandpa was a translator in WWI.
I grew up conservative. My parents, my grandparents, my churches (we moved a lot), and at least some of my neighbors were conservative.
When I was a kid/teen in the 90s and early 2000s, this was a popular complaint in my church:
Do you think we’d follow Lutheran doctrine? I’ve got a Lutheran preacher in the family. Or maybe Brethren, like where I went to college? Or Evangelical Free? I’ve been to two of those! African…
Hello! Thank you for reading the intro post for The Polite Liberal.
This blog is for you, if you want to talk to your liberal friends but don’t know where to start. If you’ve tried to join a conversation but it got nasty. If they started nit-picking…
Here’s an action that seems so far away from what I would imagine anyone doing, that it feels silly to write down. I don’t know a single person, conservative or liberal, who would rip a bottle of anti-seizure pills out of someone’s…
Does life begin at conception?
While Catholics have held that view since 1869, Protestants have changed their minds on it a few times — most recently in 1980 when Jerry Falwell…
