John Pavlovitz

johnpavlovitz.substack.comDonald Trump is a Rapist. His Followers Can Never Be Forgiven For Supporting Him.(Warning: this article contains depictions of sexual violence and may be triggering for survivors of assault)

Donald Trump is a court-adjudicated r*pist. This is not speculation. It is not conjecture. It’s not a Left-Wing talking point. This is documented, established fact. It was unequivocally declared by a judge. It has been repeatedly upheld in the courts... johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/donald-tru...

He has assaulted at least one, and very likely, dozens of girls and women. And to any decent human being, that would have been a deal-breaker. It isn't for his supporters. He is who he is, and they are who they are...

Donald Trump is a r*pist. He will always be a r*pist. His supporters will always have passionately supported a r*pist. They cannot be excused for that. They cannot be forgiven for that. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/donald-tru...

youtube.comNOT VOTING IS NOT A "STATEMENT!" John Pavlovitz on why ELECTIONS MATTER!YouTube video by John Pavlovitz Official

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I'm back on the Tube! www.youtube.com/watch?v=viPX...

johnpavlovitz.substack.comI'm a White American, And I Don't Want The GOP’s White America.I am a person of profound privilege.

I’m a White person who doesn’t want to live in a nation made up of nothing but White people. I have no interest in seeing us become a gated community of inbred, entitled supremacy that cuts itself off from an expansive world it believes itself superior to. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/im-a-white...

I have no desire to spend the rest of my days in a nation that is devoid of diversity, absent of empathy, and culturally whitewashed...

johnpavlovitz.substack.comI'm a White American, And I Don't Want The GOP’s White America.I am a person of profound privilege.

I don’t want to perpetuate Christian nationalism, systemic racism, and toxic masculinity; I want to see them dismantled—and I want to be an active participant in the demolition. I don't want the GOP's White America. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/im-a-white...

ILLINOIS! I'm headed your way November 20-22 for three free events at First Presbyterian Church: Friday 7 pm Speaking, Q & A, Book Signing Saturday 2 pm Compassion Fatigue Workshop Sunday 9:30 am Sunday church service Get more info at johnpavlovitz.com/upcoming-eve... Can't wait to meet you!

We can feel what Brazil and Serbia are feeling. It’s in our hands.

'To The People Who Aren’t Planning On Voting,' johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/to-the-peo...

johnpavlovitz.substack.comTo The People Who Aren’t Planning On Voting,An estimated 89 million registered voters did not vote in the 2024 general election.

Though you may sincerely believe it, not voting is not a bold statement of virtue. It is not a brave ethical stance. It is not a strong message to a corrupt system... johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/to-the-peo...

Book banners will be. Climate change deniers will be. Anti-vaxxers will be. People who believe Fox News is gospel truth will be. People who think Trump was sent by God will be...

johnpavlovitz.substack.comTo The People Who Aren’t Planning On Voting,An estimated 89 million registered voters did not vote in the 2024 general election.

The people who infuriate and terrify you: the hateful and the small-minded and the cruel who drive you to tears and to hopelessness? They will be voting. They will not allow someone else to interpret what their silence means. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/to-the-peo...

johnpavlovitz.substack.comTo The People Who Aren’t Planning On Voting,An estimated 89 million registered voters did not vote in the 2024 general election.

Look, I’m under no illusions about America. I’m aware of the brokenness of our system, the need to expand the available party choices, and the corruption of special interests and dark money, and I’m as exasperated as you are. But here’s what I know...

White nationalists will be voting. ICE defenders will be voting. Pedophile protectors will be voting. Phobic Christians will be voting. Insurrectionists will be voting. Genocide supporters will be voting...

johnpavlovitz.substack.comTo The People Who Aren’t Planning On Voting,An estimated 89 million registered voters did not vote in the 2024 general election.

Not voting is rendering yourself invisible. It’s silencing your own voice. It is an act of self-marginalization. It’s allowing your future to be determined by other people and pretending that’s a moral victory...

johnpavlovitz.substack.comFranklin Graham and The White Evangelical Church Need JesusMost morally compromised men of faith don’t sell their souls all at once.

One day, these professed men of God find themselves campaigning for a predator, defending ethic cleansing, celebrating the expulsion of refugees, and vilifying an entire religious tradition... johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/franklin-g...

They end up justifying the separation of families, going to battle for the NRA, and passionately defending an endless parade of lies from a pedophile President—all the while still imagining themselves righteous and still cosplaying as Christians...

johnpavlovitz.substack.comFranklin Graham and The White Evangelical Church Need JesusMost morally compromised men of faith don’t sell their souls all at once.

These are such days for men like Franklin Graham and the ministers who emulate them. He and the White Evangelical Church need the very Jesus they now have no use for. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/franklin-g...

johnpavlovitz.substack.comFranklin Graham is Going to Hell.“I love Donald Trump.

Franklin_Graham supports a traitorous, murderous, serial pedophile and his enablers. If hell exists, he's a shoo-in. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/franklin-g...

johnpavlovitz.substack.comThis Isn’t An Election; It’s A Rescue Mission—And You Can Still Save SomeoneWe are a people in peril.

This isn’t merely an election; it’s a life-or-death proposition, a rescue mission... johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/this-isnt-...

It is a rescue mission for the lives of tens of millions of human beings here who are and will continue to be brutalized by their own government; those penalized for their pigmentation and punished for their poverty...

johnpavlovitz.substack.comThis Isn’t An Election; It’s A Rescue Mission—And You Can Still Save SomeoneWe are a people in peril.

It is a rescue mission for the sick, for the poor, for the foreigner, for the black and the brown and the queer and the disabled and the different who will be legislated into oblivion. We can do more than vote in 12 days; we can save someone. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/this-isnt-...

johnpavlovitz.substack.comThis Isn’t An Election; It’s A Rescue Mission—And You Can Still Save SomeoneWe are a people in peril.

This isn’t merely an election; it’s a life-or-death proposition, a rescue mission... johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/this-isnt-...

It is a rescue mission for our nation, one final chance to rip our destinies from the hands of an extremist death cult whose love for both God and country is nonexistent; an unashamedly sadistic cadre of morally defective beings...

johnpavlovitz.substack.comNo, America, We Will Not Be Okay.I am a semi-retired optimist.

Simply believing that our leaders will do what is right is irresponsible now. Trusting that everything will work out simply because it always tended to work out in the past is a fool’s delusion... johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/no-america...

I hope people of faith and morality and conscience all decide that they won’t leave the future to chance, that they will not be found waiting for someone else to rescue them...

johnpavlovitz.substack.comNo, America, We Will Not Be Okay.I am a semi-retired optimist.

No, America, things will not be okay unless we wake up and work and vote and fight like hell—and make them okay. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/no-america...

johnpavlovitz.substack.comNo, America, We Will Not Be Okay.I am a semi-retired optimist.

More of us need to discard the naive hope that the arc of the moral universe will invariably bend toward justice—and decide to be the courageous arc-benders ourselves...

johnpavlovitz.substack.comI Went To Pride Dressed As Jesus. Here’s What Happened...They say God moves in mysterious ways.

I went to our local Pride event dressed as Jesus to stand between my LGBTQIA+ neighbors and the self-righteous stone-throwers. It was a beautiful, miraculous day. Here’s what happened… johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/i-went-to-...

Came across this letter from Hillary Clinton, thanking me for a piece I’d written in 2018, reminding people of all the things she’d been right about during the campaign…

It’s ten years to the week when she warned the American people of Trump being beholden to Vladimir Putin and a danger to our national safety and sovereignty. I wish we would have listened to her. We’d have been so much safer, healthier, kinder,

johnpavlovitz.substack.comI 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.

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... johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/i-wont-be-...

FEELING HEAVY? You're not alone. I wrote 'LOW' as an honest Advent devotional. It speaks to both faith and doubt, celebration and sorrow, gratitude and grief. Pick up a copy and join us for weekly live Zoom conversations throughout the season. pavlovitzdesign.com/products/a-s...

KNOW YOUR RIGHTS AT THE POLLS. Do not allow yourself or anyone else to be intimidated or harassed while voting. Be able to refer to federal law and report anyone violating it. Contact an election official and/or call 911. If possible, remain at the polling site. Protect yourself and your neighbors.

johnpavlovitz.substack.comNo King’s Day Was Really Nice. And That’s What Worries Me.No King’s Day Episode 4 went off pretty much as predicted.

The United States is less than three weeks away from a nation-altering election that the current Administration is clearly doing everything to rig and disrupt, and one it has no intention of honoring, should the votes of the people not be in their favor... johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/no-kings-d...

I wonder if we have it in us to do what we might be required to do to ensure the will of the voters is honored, and the directives of the Constitution are followed...

johnpavlovitz.substack.comNo King’s Day Was Really Nice. And That’s What Worries Me.No King’s Day Episode 4 went off pretty much as predicted.

Though I want more than anything to be wrong, as I look at the fierce, fiery protests that have shut down France and elsewhere, I’m terribly worried that Americans may be too soft and too polite to meet the moment that is likely coming... johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/no-kings-d...

johnpavlovitz.substack.comNo King’s Day Was Really Nice. And That’s What Worries Me.No King’s Day Episode 4 went off pretty much as predicted.

Regardless of the results at the polls, we are almost certainly going to be thrust into chaos by this sitting president; one that we have never experienced in our 250-year-history...

RALEIGH! See you this Sunday at 10:30 am at UU Peace Fellowship for my final message before the election. We got some stuff to talk about!

Have you noticed that Trump fires the incompetent women but keeps the incompetent men? I have.

johnpavlovitz.substack.comIf We Want To Stop Mass Shootings in America, We Need To Stop Voting Republican.The sickening Déjà vu is here.

Before we’ve had a chance to grieve and bury the children and the adult killed in Bend, Oregon, there will be more dead people slaughtered with guns... johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/if-we-want...

Until we stop electing people with more reverence for weapons of rapid carnage than for the bodies, lives, and families torn apart by them, we will continue to endure a collective grief that is both unnatural and preventable...

johnpavlovitz.substack.comIf We Want To Stop Mass Shootings in America, We Need To Stop Voting Republican.The sickening Déjà vu is here.

If we want to stop mass shootings in America, if we want to honor the dead, and if we want to truly defend life, we need to stop electing Republicans. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/if-we-want...

johnpavlovitz.substack.comIf We Want To Stop Mass Shootings in America, We Need To Stop Voting Republican.The sickening Déjà vu is here.

Before we’ve had a chance to grieve and bury the children and the adult killed in Bend, Oregon, there will be more dead people slaughtered with guns... johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/if-we-want...

They’ll again pretend that they actually give a damn about the memories of these young people or the pain of their families, or the fact that someone’s children were once again huddled and terrified in storage closets, while they tell us it’s too soon to talk about how wrong this all is...

So yes, we agree. These children and their teacher deserve to be properly eulogized. They deserve to be rightly remembered. They also deserved to live. And the children and teachers who will die tomorrow deserve to live, too...

johnpavlovitz.substack.comIf We Want To Stop Mass Shootings in America, We Need To Stop Voting Republican.The sickening Déjà vu is here.

Before we’ve had a chance to grieve and bury the children and the adult killed in Bend, Oregon, there will be more dead people slaughtered with guns... johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/if-we-want...

And on that terrible day, just like today, Conservative politicians and their boosters will tell us this isn’t the time. They’ll again chastise us for being insensitive. They’ll once more feign indignation and accuse us of politicizing a tragedy...

Conservative gun nuts don't care about dead kids. They love the guns more than the lives taken with them. If you want to stop gun violence, stop voting Republican.

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