Author: John Pavlovitz

We recently found ourselves in a now-familiar location: hopelessly stuck in an unnavigable impasse on our respective paths, unable to find a way forward. And, as in so many times before, when the friction became too great and the exchange too heated and the tension too uncomfortable, you dropped an all-too-familiar final salvo designed to stop conversation and temporarily defuse the situation: “We’re just going to have to agree to disagree.” I disagree. I refuse these terms. Such a concession assumes that we both have equally valid opinions, that we’re each mutually declaring those opinions not so divergent that...

I meet thousands of people every year who rightly recoil against Christianity in America, who are fully sickened by its insidious influence in our political system; who see it as a toxic presence in our nation — one that serves only to divide and perpetuate inequity and inflict injury. Yet, it’s almost universally true, that these same people recognize that the problem with American Christianity isn’t Jesus. They’re usually really cool with him. That’s because they know what Jesus actually said and did. Most people outside Christianity know that Jesus said, “No one can serve two masters. Either you...

How much is America worth to you? What would you sacrifice in order to stop the suffering you are seeing every day on the news and on your timeline and in your neighborhood and in your living room? How much would you be willing to lose if you knew you could alter the trajectory of this nation? What courageous and selfless acts might you be capable of, if you were certain that you could be the difference in millions of human beings living or dying? If America were placed in your hands alone, how much would you give to...