Welcome to Melody's Blog

...We need to get honest as a community, and those who refuse to be honest need to be firmly and gently held accountable for it.

God so loved the world. Selah, America.

#UnsettlingTruths

#BlackLivesMatter

Godliness cannot be imposed upon society as the Christian nationalists have tried and failed to do.

There is a total lack of thinking for oneself, and it has made American evangelicals vulnerable to sectarian cults and conspiracy theories..

First we grieve. We've been through hell, narcissistic abuse. We've also lost people to this abusive cult...

What we have seen unfold in our country is a result of evangelical values.

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We need to do some self-evaluation of why we got here and how we can change.

Racism is not pro-life; racism is death for those dehumanized by it. It is the destruction of lives.

It was no surprise these people could justify Trump, when they could justify callous cruelty in their own lives.

At what point do we reckon with the fact we’ve been lied to by the people who were meant to lead and protect and encourage US?

Lip-service to a movement that will get you elected, while protecting tyrants who dismember journalists they don't like, is not pro-life.

...if you’ve got this far, you’ve been listening to a woman preach and teach.

If you don’t have a secure citizenship in heaven, you are bound to cling to something useless and foolish here on earth.

Does oppression only matter to you if it's Christians being persecuted? If so, how is that a Christian position?

Never again is now: this nationalistic narcissism ends in genocide of some kind. We as a nation have caused irreparable harm to..children...

"'Love thy neighbor' doesn’t include Muslims." Yes it does.

I want to take a moment... to address this notion that talking about negative realities equals divisive partisanship.