This President Exposed Many of My White Christian Friends

The Beautiful Mess by John Pavlovitz Podcast · May 21, 2025 · 4m

This President has been many things since descending an escalator a decade ago: a national embarrassment, a global punchline, an environmental disaster, a divider of people, a prolific murderer of the English language.

But he's also been a floodlight.

He's fully exposed millions of people who'd kept themselves carefully concealed, many of whom I thought I knew. I can see them now in ways I never could previously. It's all out in the open.

Intellectually, I always knew that racism was deeply embedded into the fabric of our nation, but I'd convinced myself that it had slowly but certainly begun…