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American hell
In the last year of his life, Martin Luther King Jr.’s confidence in the politics of progressivism dimmed. Judgment became his refrain.
Does God want America to be great?
A time to endure
As we approach another Trump presidency, I’ve been thinking a lot about Ecclesiastes.
Faith groups resolve to protect migrants, refugees after Trump win
“We will not be intimidated into silence or inaction.”
Did God intervene to save Trump’s life?
Underneath this question lies layer upon layer of ever more troubling theological questions.
The Court’s embrace of the divine right of presidents
In the Trump v. United States oral arguments, the conservative justices sought what Justice Gorsuch called “a rule for the ages”—one that doesn’t impair the sovereign grandeur of presidential power.