Author: Beaux
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The Christian Mandate: Treating Immigrants and LGBTQ persons with respect and with dignity.
“We were not put on this earth to make life harder for one another. Our real purpose in life is to make life better for one another.” These profound words encapsulate the very essence of Christian living – a calling deeply rooted in Christian compassion and social justice. At its core, the Christian faith is…
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American Workers Have Less Power & Fewer Rights Than Workers in Other Advanced Democracies.
This Harms Americans and Depresses Wages. In France, a strike is not treated as a civic emergency. It is treated as part of civic life. Trains stop, schools close, fuel depots slow, and the country argues—loudly, publicly, and often angrily—about the terms on which ordinary people should be expected to live. In the United States,…
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Challenging the Myth of the White Jesus
The standard representation of Jesus in the West is more than just a historically incorrect portrait. It has subtly conditioned generations of believers to associate Caucasian features with sacredness and purity. For a vast number of people, their initial encounter with Christ does not occur through reading scripture or hearing a sermon, but through a…
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Dear American Christians: Our God Is Too Small
On the spiritual danger of shrinking God until our neighbors no longer fit inside our love Sometimes unbelief does not look like unbelief. It can sound religious. It can sing the hymns, quote the verses, and talk confidently about providence and righteousness. It may even insist that God is sovereign over all things. Yet the…
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The Lost Sanctuary of Conscience: Why the Abortion Debate Demands Respect for Pro-Choice Christians
Not long ago, many protestant churches, including Southern Baptist, were pro-choice on abortion. Being pro-choice is a very moral, very Christian, historical perspective. On a spring morning in 1967, readers of The New York Times opened their newspapers to find a startling, public act of defiance. A group of twenty-one Protestant ministers and Jewish rabbis…
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A Book Every Person Who Loves Freedom Should be Reading Now: “Live. Fight. Survive. One Soldier’s Extraordinary Story of the Fight Against Russia.”
During my July holiday, I read a book by a former soldier of the British Army, Shaun Pinner. The Brit married a Ukrainian woman and fell in love with his adopted hometown of Mariupol. He enlisted in the Ukraine Army in 2018, with the Russian invasion of Ukraine beginning in the last six months of…
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The Soul of the American Inmate: Both Science & Morality Compel Us to Change Prisons
The current system makes inmates worse. Science tells us how to change behavior; faith tells us why we must care enough to do it. To drive past the concrete walls of almost any American penitentiary is to gaze upon a monument to a quiet, collective despair. For more than half a century, the architectural and…
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Trump’s Incompetence Incentivizes Nuclear Arms Proliferation and Increases the Risk of Nuclear War
Donald Trump’s second term has not merely seen the continuation of previous trends toward nuclear proliferation but has witnessed their catastrophic acceleration, culminating in the outbreak of war in the Middle East. This conflict now casts an immediate, terrifying shadow over the architecture of global stability, particularly where the specter of nuclear weapons looms. This…
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How MAGA politicians Use Immigrants to Divide and Harm American Workers for Partisan Gain
When the roof of a house begins to leak, a responsible homeowner inspects the shingles, clears the gutters, and prepares to pay for repairs. A desperate one points out the window at the gathering storm, blaming the rain for the dry rot that has been festering in the rafters for decades. In modern democratic politics,…
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Beyond Misogynist Insults: Manhood, Political Weaponization, and Partisan Smears on Texas Senate Candidate James Talarico
Political leadership should be characterized by an unwavering commitment to truth, a courageous pursuit of justice, and a compassionate spirit, rather than by a performance of culturally contrived machismo. In the rough-and-tumble arena of politics, where rhetoric often devolves into caricature, the Texas U.S. Senate race offers a particularly stark example of masculinity weaponized. James…
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Russia’s Breaking Point: Why Now Is the Moment to Boost Aid and Help Ukraine Win
For much of the past four years, a weary consensus has settled over Western capitals. The war in Ukraine, we are told in sober, hushed tones, has devolved into a permanent, grinding stalemate—a tragic, modern iteration of the Somme where borders shift by inches at the cost of miles of graves. But visit Kyiv today,…
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The Commandment Americans Keep Admiring Instead of Obeying: Love Your Neighbor As Yourself
“Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment.And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ — Matthew 22:36-39 There is something unsettling about how…
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A Moral Response to Putin’s War Crimes and The Kidnapping of Children in Ukraine
Why Christians Must Respond Why the language of war crimes—and, for some, genocide—keeps returning to Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine, and what the fight over words reveals about law, evidence, and the politics of witnessing. A parent whose child has disappeared into the war does not start with a courtroom word. The parent starts with…
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Why Sexual Assault and Rape Are Moral Issues the Church Must Speak On More Forcefully
Sexual assault and rape are not only criminal acts, though they are profoundly that. They are not only social problems, though they tear through families, communities, and institutions. They are moral horrors. They are violations of human dignity, breaches of trust, expressions of domination, and direct assaults on the image of God in another person.…
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When Donald Trump Attacks Black Public Figures
A close read of the insults, the patterns behind them, the political work they do, and the normalizing of racism and cruelty by the President and his evangelical supporters. Donald Trump has never treated language as mere description. For decades he has used words as a kind of weaponry: to define enemies, elevate allies, and…
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Trump’s Attacks on Female Journalists Are Misogynistic—and Designed to Shut Down Tough Questions
How public insults in press briefings shut down women’s voices and chill rigorous accountability journalism In the modern American press conference, power rarely announces itself with a gavel. It clears its throat, points at a reporter, and decides—on live television—who deserves to be taken seriously. Donald Trump has long treated the White House briefing room…
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First, Do No Harm: The Impact of Anti-LGBT and Anti-Black Political Rhetoric on Minority Mental Health
The Language of Hate Has Consequences For American Society and Individuals In the age of instant communication, political rhetoric no longer stays confined to debates or campaign trails. It circulates through news media, social platforms, legislative hearings, and everyday conversation, shaping who is seen as deserving of dignity, protection, or exclusion. For minority communities, those…
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The Lie That Will Follow MAGA’s Collapse
When a political movement fails, the most dangerous thing it leaves behind is not damage—but the story it tells about why it happened. When MAGA collapses under the weight of its own intellectual and moral failures, current Trump supporters will claim that Trump was a great president in his first term and blame his second…
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The Threat is Real: How Trump Undermines Elections, Threatens Election Officials & Poll Workers
From state election offices to the steps of the Capitol, a sustained campaign against the legitimacy of the vote reshaped what Americans expect from democracy—and what election workers now endure. In most American elections, the drama belongs to the candidates. The people who make voting possible—the retirees checking names against rolls, the county clerks watching…
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The Moral Case for Prison Reform
How we run prisons and treat prisoners is not only cruel and inhumane, it fails to rehabilitate inmates. Introduction Prison systems around the world stand at a crossroads, and the choices we make carry real human consequences. For many people, incarceration is not an abstract policy debate—it is a son or daughter missing from the…
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What American Evangelicals Forgot
The Trees and the Forest Too many Christians become so focused on the details of faith—what I call the “trees”—that we lose sight of the forest. We argue about the proper way to believe, the precise mechanics of salvation, the exact formula of baptism, the correct style of worship, the right vocabulary for prayer, and…
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Muslim Americans Are Among the Least Likely to Support Violence—And Political Violence Can Be Higher in Some U.S. Subgroups, Including White Evangelicals
In the United States, fear often speaks louder than evidence—especially when it comes to Muslims. Public discourse continues to imply that Islamic belief is uniquely linked to violence, an assumption reinforced by selective media coverage and political rhetoric. Yet decades of empirical research tell a very different story. If Americans are serious about religious freedom…
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Called to Love Everyone, Even When We Feel Uncomfortable.
Many of us grow up learning that love is a virtue, even a command—something we owe to family, friends, neighbors, and people who feel familiar. Yet the true measure of love is not how warmly we treat those who already fit our preferences or beliefs; it is whether we can extend dignity, care, and goodwill…
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The Dangers of Political Hatred in Democracy
America does not suffer from an excess of political disagreement. It suffers from a collapse of civic restraint. Disagreement is inevitable in a pluralistic democracy. In fact, it is essential. But in recent years, political identity has increasingly become a moral sorting mechanism—one that divides neighbors into abstractions and encourages citizens to interpret disagreement as…