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Out Here in the Middle
While talking with my friend Ron as he drove through Nebraska, I quoted him a James McMurtry song: “Out here in the middle where the...
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The “Least Resistant Personality Profile” and Factory Farms
While studying rural communities that face poverty, shocking rates of cancer, and poisoned fishing waters from industrial pollution,...
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Normalizing Domestic Terrorism
I suppose I’m less and less unique all the time, but I have personal friends who have been touched directly by a mass murder, perpetrated...
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Empathy Walls: Understanding Oppressed People Who Love Trump
There isn’t much point in sending readers of this little blog to Reading Religion, the American Academy of Religion’s review portal—I...
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“Resistance,” Recalling Trump’s Actual Mandate, and Widening Gaps in Republicanism
When the Mafia-backed entrepreneur and con man Donald Trump captured a majority of electoral college votes—although, of course, not a...