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The Awful Grace of God Sep 22, 2025

From Abraham Lincoln to John F. Kennedy, and from Malcolm X to Martin Luther King Jr., America's story has too often been marred by the silencing of visionary voices through violence. Each loss forces us to confront the question of what kind of natio... Read More

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Political Violence Cannot Continue Sep 22, 2025

As I watched the sorrowful and horrifying news reports of the assassination of conservative political activist Charlie Kirk while he was speaking at Utah Valley University, I thought about how political violence and gun violence are driving our natio... Read More

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The Martyrdom of My Friend Charlie Kirk Sep 19, 2025

It is difficult enough to write about the most high-profile political assassination in this country since the Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy killings of 1968. It is considerably more difficult to do so when the victim was a personal fri... Read More

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The Hungry Side of My Fightin' Eyes Sep 19, 2025

A few months ago, I told a friend that maybe this whole Trump mess started with two Merle Haggard songs. One was "The Fightin' Side of Me," and the other was "Okie from Muskogee," both anthems of a defiant, exclusive American identity that locked out... Read More