When will the empty chair be at our table?

Photo credit: John Pavolitz   This is a difficult message to write on this most special and uniquely American holiday. Make no mistake, I will be breaking bread with my family and giving thanks for the blessings life has given. However, there is a cloud in my...

Christian Nationalists and the Golden Rule

Photo credit – Medium   The Christian Nationalist movement is the newest phenomenon shaping the Republican Party. Case in point, Pennsylvania’s Republican candidate for Governor, Doug Mastriano is, for all intents and purposes, the poster hero for this emerging...

Pennsylvania’s back to school gun failure

Photo credit: Kingdetector     This week marked the beginning of school for more than a million Pennsylvania school children. Many kids returning to school were walking through metal detectors, some wearing bullet-proof back packs and too many leaving...

Call them out!

Poto credit: FAVPNG.com     The radicalization of the Republican Party has certainly changed our political discourse. Unfortunately, what we once believed to be far-right conspiracy theorists and outliers of conservative thought are now the mainstream of...

Trump was right – the system is rigged

Photo credit: Bulatlat   Donald Trump was right. The system is rigged but not in the way he would have us believe. Our system is rigged in a way that gives a minority of voters holding points of view completely out of sync with most Americans, a nearly perpetual...