Bullies like Donald Trump manufacture false enemies. That’s what he was doing with Volodymyr Zelenskyy. If we follow Trump in fearing false enemies and ignoring true ones, we will betray our trust in God and our nation.

The post-election blame game is on. And blaming Democrats for being elite popular. Condescension is wrong. But we don’t become condescending elites just by bothering others with the truth. If the truth hurts us we can grow up and learn from it. Democrats and all of us should always speak the truth in love.

I’m ashamed that Americans have believed lies and surrendered to tactics of fear and hate. But now is the time to do more to protect the vulnerable and awaken America to it’s better angels.

Kamala Harris was extremely successful debating Donald Trump. I would only urge her and her campaign to point out how destructive anti-immigrant lies are to real human beings, and to clearly name Trump's worldview as pure fantasy that poses a great threat to the nation.

God's Word speaks to us from the Bible to help us grow in our relationship to God. It changes us from wanting the world to bless us to wanting to be used by a loving God to bless the world.

Democrats proved to be the functional party by quickly persuading Biden to drop out of this year's presidential race. Republicans showed themselves dysfunctional by failing, for ten years, to renounce the infantile and anti-democratic ways of Donald Trump.

God is human, only more so. The divine and human come together in God and Jesus. And in us, when we follow our instincts about the "more so" of human kindness and love.

Holy Communion, done right, keeps us from dehumanizing God by letting the God of flesh and blood turn back into mere words.

We all seek the high of being carried away to something bigger than ourselves. Fake highs leave us empty. God's genuine high is with the Spirit of joy and love of all others.