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Why Evangelical Christians Voted for Trump
A personal perspective. I grew up in the Assemblies of God, a Pentecostal church that practiced adult baptism and featured thunderous sermons and speaking in tongues. Unlike many teenagers with a similar background, I never rebelled, never left the faith. Indeed, in college I avoided situations I feared might prove too great a challenge for…
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Winning
Love has a million disguisesBut winning is simply not one “Citizens” by John Guerra When I was a kid and even well into adolescence, I played with my siblings a game we called Good Guys and Bad Guys. It involved two teams, usually self-selected. The Bad Guys would do something nefarious—kidnap, steal, or kill—and the…
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Why I’m Not a Republican
I used to be a stalwart Republican. I voted Republican in every election until Donald Trump ran for President. (I voted for Barack Obama’s second term, but I still voted Republican down ballot. I had no qualms about doing that because I believed at the time that sharing power across parties acted as a check…
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Voter Fraud
In 2016 Donald Trump lost the popular vote by 3 million votes. In 2020 he lost again, this time by 5 million. The first time he was so incredulous at having lost, so disturbed by evidence of his own unpopularity, that he formed a commission in 2017 to uncover the massive fraud that he claimed…
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Why Stories Circulate about Covid-19 Deaths
I’ve seen several posts on Facebook claiming that deaths of relatives or friends have been falsely attributed to covid-19 when in fact they were due to some other cause. These anecdotes represent a misunderstanding of the way statistics work and how data for statistics is collected. Of course, researchers want as accurate a count as…
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