I am once again asking white Christians to rethink their vote — The first U.S. presidential election I have some recollection of was the one in 1992, the second one I was alive for. I was 5, I was good at reading, and someone hung campaign posters created by students on the walls around my Catholic grade school. One said, “Clinton and…

Or, the #1 thing people told me when I left church — There are scripts for every important occasion in life. We say “Beautiful boy!” and “He looks just like his mom” for a birth. “What’s the date?” and “Where are you registered?” are for engagements. …

Or, that one time I took a forgiveness class — Four years ago, I stood in a parking lot, slipped a pebble into my shoe, and began walking along the grassy perimeter. I had enrolled in a forgiveness class at church, and this was the first homework assignment: to spend an entire day walking around with a pebble in my…

Or, that one time I was fired from Cedarville — If you follow Christendom in the news, you’ve probably heard that Liberty University, one of the country’s leading conservative Christian colleges, placed its president Jerry Falwell on an indefinite leave of absence for posting this controversial photo to Instagram. It’s got me wondering: of all the despicable things Falwell has…