May 11, 2021Tim Tebow Should Just Say No — but he won’t, and that Deserves CriticismWhen I was in the 6th grade, I tried out for my elementary school basketball team. After tryouts, the coach called and told me that I hadn’t made the roster. I was pretty disappointed, to the point of tears. Then, to my surprise, the coach called again and said he’d…Tim Tebow8 min read
Oct 20, 2020A Polling Science and Swing State Election Night Primer For the Existentially AnxiousAmerica is just over two weeks away from deciding who will be in the White House as President for another four years, as well as determining the balance of power in the Senate and House of Representatives for the next twenty-four months at the very least. Regardless of who you…Politics19 min read
Mar 5, 2020Thirst Officer’s Log: The Horny Mess that is Commander RikerLet’s face it: William T. Riker is a mess. He’s one of my favorite characters on Star Trek: The Next Generation because of it. It’s not that I glorify his mess — far from it — but that the mess is emblematic of the writer’s room’s hodgepodge approach to the…Star Trek5 min read
Apr 9, 2018Why Stay in Church? Three LGBTQ+ Christians Speak UpAmerican Christianity has never been a particularly welcoming place for LGBTQ+ people. Recent data released by the Pew Research Center on Religion & Public Life indicates that only 36% of Evangelical Protestants believe that homosexuality should be accepted in society, against a 55% group that believes the contrary. This isn’t…Christianity10 min read
Feb 15, 2018Most Christian Worship Music is Hilariously HomoeroticThe Bible has never been afraid of a little sex. From Ezekiel 23:20, “There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.” …Christianity7 min read
Jan 22, 2018Tonya Harding is America’s MirrorBetween the release of Craig Gillespie’s almost bitterly saccharine biopic “I, Tonya” and a hauntingly-hushed American folk ballad written by the infamously quizzical indie music darling Sufjan Stevens, Tonya Harding has become quite the household name once again. Conversations about Tonya — now remarried and known as Tonya Price —…Tonya Harding7 min read
Jan 16, 2018Dear White Christians: Dr. King Isn’t Your Whitewashed MannequinIn 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote a letter from Birmingham City Jail that, among other things, responded to several white Christian clergymen from Alabama, who had composed the so-called “A Call For Unity”. In their call, the clergymen admitted that racial inequality and injustice existed, but took issue…Black Lives Matter7 min read
