A legal and moral examination of Angela Rigas’s response to a peaceful protest outside her home—what the law says, what her rhetoric reveals, and what leadership should look like.
Tag Archives: Trumpism
An important announcement: I am not changing my Facebook profile pic
So many questions this morning. Some huge, some trivial. I cannot deal with the big questions right now. So I give you my answer to a trivial question that you did not ask: I am not changing my Facebook profile picture. The “Love Anyway” hat stays. It feels heavier and tighter. I felt a powerfulContinue reading “An important announcement: I am not changing my Facebook profile pic”
Always Running: sex, integrity, and Caledonia Community Schools
An unusual little speech by State Representative Angela Rigas in a recent school board meeting in Caledonia, MI, raises questions about the purpose of books in high school and about the importance of integrity in public leaders.
Again with “parental rights”: the return of a dog whistle
Here we go again. Campaign by dog whistle. How much did it cost Jessica Kohn to spam her little campaign plug into my iMessages account? And who paid for it? But she sent it to me, and I will respond. The first sentence of the message in the screenshot carries all the weight: Jessica KohnContinue reading “Again with “parental rights”: the return of a dog whistle”
Hearing “The Partisan” in St. Malo
American reflections on visiting the French coastal city reduced to rubble in All the Light We Cannot See
Democracy, Christianity, abortion
Wednesday night’s post by Heather Cox Richardson (you should read it) illustrates the central problematic in American politics: the alliance between fascist-leaning politics and selected conservative Christian values pertaining to sex. With my background, I can see clearly that antipathy toward abortion always has been and always must be a feature of authentic Christian faith.Continue reading “Democracy, Christianity, abortion”
January 6, Angela Rigas, and the way forward
Yale historian Timothy Snyder has posted a 15-fact summary of the January 6 committee’s report. You should stop now and read it if you have not already. I said yesterday (in a FaceBook post) that no one can be surprised by continuing revelations of Trump’s misdeeds. Anyone with clear moral vision knew what Trump was,Continue reading “January 6, Angela Rigas, and the way forward”
Acquiescence is complicity; love requires truthtelling
Until we have agreed that we will speak truthfully and respectfully to and about each other, and that we will not choose as our representatives people who are unable to do either, we cannot hope for progress on anything else.
Roe v. Wade and everything else
Praying the Lord’s Prayer again in the context of current events.
Why Christotrumpians admire Putin
The people who reduce the Trump-Biden choice to anti-abortion versus pro-abortion are victims and perpetrators of the same malignant fallacy as those who reduce the Russia-Ukraine situation to anti-transgender-rights to pro-transgender-rights.
Verba Sparsa 