In 2026 America, we are being sold a cheap, brutish, ugly, superficial, violent view of the world.
We are told that our world is one in which you #FAFO. One in which failure to obey a man with a gun means certain, justifiable death.
We are told that this world is the only world possible. And sometimes that seems true, as I write to you from Minneapolis, where on Thursday I found myself retracing my steps: driving the less than five miles from my Minneapolis home to a nearby neighborhood in South Minneapolis. Less than six years ago I biked here, wearing my clergy collar, to attend a clergy protest and prayer service after the murder of George Floyd…