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Archive, OMFG, UncategorizedFebruary 18, 2020

A Short Primer on Married Priests in the Wake of Francis’ Denial of the Amazon Synod

By Katie Kelaidis

The recent announcement by Pope Francis that he will not allow married men to be…

Archive, Politics/Law, UncategorizedFebruary 12, 2020

Trump Admin Grant to ‘Hookers for Jesus’ Ignites Twitter Firestorm Over Taxpayer Funded Religious Coercion

By Chrissy Stroop

Reuters’ Sarah N. Lynch broke a big story on Monday morning highlighting one of the more…

Archive, OMFG, UncategorizedFebruary 7, 2020

Trump’s SOTU Address Was a Christian Nationalist Dog Whistle

By Andrew L. Seidel

Amid the ripping paper and misbegotten medals, Trump’s State of the Union address promised nationalism…

Archive, UncategorizedFebruary 6, 2020

Amid Reality-TV Gimmicks and Xenophobic Rhetoric, Trump’s SOTU Appeals to Evangelicals

By Chrissy Stroop

Since late December, 2019, when retiring editor-in-chief of Christianity Today Mark Galli published his infamous…

Archive, Culture, Politics/Law, UncategorizedJanuary 18, 2020

MLK Monument That Never Was, is a Reminder of the King Too Often Ignored

By Ed Simon

During the controversy surrounding the selection of a design for the Martin Luther King Jr….

Archive, History/Theology, Politics/Law, UncategorizedDecember 2, 2019

What If Donald Trump is Just as Christian as Evangelicals?

By John Stoehr

There is no such thing as abuse of power when one has been chosen by God to rule. There is no such thing as obstruction of justice when God alone decides who is worthy of justice.

UncategorizedMay 3, 2018

Update #2: No Safe Place For Truthtellers: A Larger Frame For the House Chaplain Brouhaha

By Peter Laarman

Pundits that play the story as merely another “unforced error” on Ryan’s part miss this crucial point about the containable rage of the exposed despoilers toward someone who is, by all accounts, a mild-mannered and well-regarded figure.