First, let me thank everyone who has emailed, commented, and private messaged me mostly with kind words, and some with not so kind words. ALL of your words and thoughts are important and keep me energized and humble. My little essay has been read in more than 110 countries and by nearly 1 million people. Stunning, staggering, and very gratifying.
So here’s the plan in the wake of this kerfuffle. I plan to take the points in the essay and explore each thought in greater detail. Now that I am situated as a guest blogger at Huffington Post, I hope to use that platform (along with my website and Facebook) to continue this dialogue on topics that seem to be of interest to so many. My goal is to encourage people to explore the intersection of faith and politics, and arrive at conclusions that are based in fact rather than in raw opinion, or driven by fear or someone else’s agenda. I am thankful that God has given me an opportunity to reach many more people and hope that you will ride along with me on this journey.
LaMonte M. Fowler 
March 1, 2016 at 6:12 pm
Thank you for this… It’s awesome (and should be required reading for those who are capable of it!)
March 1, 2016 at 9:26 pm
Thanks. I have been thinking most of that myself. Good on you. STAY sane, and write on. There are more of us out here than you might think. We may be outnumbered, but please do continue to raise your voice on our behalf…. The knotheads may not prevail, if you and others of good heart and reasonably sound mind can raise some hope and sense.
March 1, 2016 at 9:26 pm
Thanks so much.
March 2, 2016 at 5:15 am
Lamonte,
You’re right. You have much to be humble about.
March 2, 2016 at 7:32 am
Thank you for saying all the things I want to say and doing so in such a fluid fashion. My monoculture home state is so far removed from the rest of the world and yet spouts an opinion on everything ….I want to to air bomb this letter over every town.
March 2, 2016 at 8:35 am
Great column,thanks
March 2, 2016 at 10:13 am
Just when I think the whole f-ing world has gone totally nuts some sanity comes into view. THANK YOU and keep writing . . . . it’s not just YOUR sanity that is at stake.
March 2, 2016 at 10:27 am
Love love love your writing….
Your sense of humor and your fresh perspective reminded me of how I felt when I put on my first pair of glasses on as a kid! Please keep writing and sharing!👍😆
March 2, 2016 at 7:16 pm
My brother in all but biology – I have enjoyed our long (some too long) catch up calls. Your gift for putting things into written form is something I really enjoy. I look forward to your upcoming series of essays which I am certain will help start conversations rather than end them. It is through our ability to engage in constructive dialogue that we will navigate these very interesting times.
March 2, 2016 at 8:26 pm
I hope the wake of the kerfuffle has been full of more effervescent bubbles than jellyfish, those two extremes’ being, I think, the co-occurring benefits/hazards of going viral. Your post was, for so many of us, precisely the medicine we needed in order to keep slogging through this mess. Also, no fashionable deerskin clothing in my clan; thank you for that visual. I look forward to your next steps. And the next. And the next.
March 6, 2016 at 10:14 pm
Quite a mind picture, quite an awakening, just the thing I needed to see and contemplate in these Presidential politics days of late. I am too close to copying your journey of discovery to get any traction intellectually yet. I am amazed at your honesty and willingness to share. Looking forward to your upcoming series. Lord, give me strength.