# John Pavlovitz

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No King’s Day Was Really Nice. And That’s What Worries Me.

No King’s Day Episode 4 went off pretty much as predicted. Cities all over America were filled with a massive, ebullient mob of families, schoolteachers, ministers, parents, grocery store clerks, college students, business owners, grandparents, and toddlers on shoulders. Highways and overpasses wer…

Spectacle

In this episode of [un]phased unedited, we examine "Diaspora Wars," the tensions that surface between African Americans, continental Africans, Caribbean immigrants, and other communities across the global Black diaspora.  We then move to the controversy surrounding a University of Maryland club ten…

I Went To Pride Dressed As Jesus. Here’s What Happened...

They say God works in mysterious ways. I’m gonna co-sign that sentiment. Our decidedly purple North Carolina town recently held its third Pride festival. The first two incarnations were, by any metric, glorious successes, with residents pouring in for a celebration of diversity, inclusion, and com…

No, America, We Will Not Be Okay.

I am a semi-retired optimist. I used to believe that things would always be okay: that no matter how bad circumstances seemed in the world, I trusted that people would eventually do the right thing, that goodness would prevail, that the rational center would hold. I used to believe that our Constit…

This Isn’t An Election; It’s A Rescue Mission—And You Can Still Save Someone

We are a people in peril. The damage our Republic has sustained over the past two years is incalculable. There is no way to accurately quantify the irreparable harm done to the connective tissue of this nation, to our systems of support, to our electoral processes, to our safeguards against foreig…

Franklin Graham and The White Evangelical Church Need Jesus

Most morally compromised men of faith don’t sell their souls all at once. Sometimes it happens in a billion tiny moral transactions; a series of infinitesimal compromises over time that are invisible to them, but not to others. They can’t see from the inside what is so apparent from a distance. Mom…

To The People Who Aren’t Planning On Voting,

An estimated 89 million registered voters did not vote in the 2024 general election. I know many of them. They are family members, friends, neighbors, and people I meet in passing at high school football games, in checkout lines, and at the gym. I meet hundreds more of them every day on social med…

I'm a White American, And I Don't Want The GOP’s White America.

I am a person of profound privilege. As a White, cisgender-heterosexual man born in America and raised in the Christian faith, I have been afforded every benefit this nation offers: education, opportunity, freedom, options (the kind most will never experience), while having very little required fro…

Everyone is Cool With Jesus... Except White Evangelicals

There’s a fairly wild development over the past few years within the White Evangelical ecosystem in America: a complete rejection of Jesus. Labeling empathy toxic and declaring kindness woke, they’ve pivoted hard from his commands to love their disparate neighbors as themselves, rebranding the fait…

It’s Time To Say Goodbye, America

Friends in America, we will soon say goodbye to something. One way or another, this year will end with a farewell. It will either close with a glorious, triumphant blast of freedom—or with the sickening death knell of a flawed but promising nation, gone for good. Either America will part ways with …