John Pavlovitz
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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I Won’t Be Alone In The Voting Booth And Neither Will You. (So Get There.)
Like hundreds of millions of Americans, I am preparing to go to the polls to cast my vote in the most consequential election of my lifetime, perhaps of this nation’s lifetime. And while I will enter the voting booth by myself, I will not be there alone. I am bringing a silent…
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Trump Supporters Have Failed The Human Test.
This week, an alarming video surfaced of a woman being assaulted at a Trump rally in Youngstown, Ohio, for wearing a shirt that said, “Release The Epstein Files’ while heckling the President as a fascist. The video shows a group of large, grown men violently pushing the woman…
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I Think Someone Is Finally Going To Save America
Not all heroes wear capes. Sometimes they wear Primus t-shirts. This morning my newsfeed was filled with videos of a woman in a yellow jacket and concert tee being escorted by police from a Trump rally in my birthplace of Syracuse, NY. As she moves through the sneering, jeering,…
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Cornell’s Jane Doe Needed One Good Man In That House And That Group Chat. She Would Find None.
Warning: this piece includes references to sexual assault, as well as words many may find offensive. Everything discussed is alleged in a civil lawsuit filed by the family of Jane Doe. One good man. Just one decent human being. That is all a then 20-year-old Jane Doe needed to…
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Ed Sheeran and The White Privilege of Apolitical Neutrality
I know singer Ed Sheeran. (Well, in a way I do, and so do you.) In the wake of the whirlwind of controversy over rapper Macklemore’s removal from Sheeran’s tour for his pro-Palestinian statements on stage, the Shape of You singer issued a lengthy statement on social media to…
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Hey, Ed Sheeran, Palestine Is Dying In White Silence Like Yours.
(Photo by Peggy Sirota) Hey, Ed Sheeran, Well, you’ve had quite a busy week. You’ve caved to your billionaire buddy Robert Kraft, you’ve deferred to the pearl-clutching Pink, you’ve fallen in line behind your promoters, and you’ve kowtowed to a handful of football stadium owners…
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Is Anyone Else’s Mental Health A Mess—Or Is It Just Me?
I feel like I’m losing my mind.” That thought runs through my head more than I’d like to admit these days. As someone who has navigated the past three decades with a mental illness, I’ve gotten used to the crushing despair that visits from time to time, sometimes staying for a…