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At the US Capitol, pro-Trump extremists laid siege to democracy
Democracy is fragile. But the things that make it fragile are the same things that give it power.
George H. W. Bush’s letter to Bill Clinton was a model of respect and solidarity
What will Donald Trump leave for Joe Biden?
How I hope to approach the days following the election
Last time I woke early, opened the curtains, sat down to pray, and started crying.
The COVID-19 pandemic shows that Trump simply isn’t governing
And it isn’t partisan to say that a president who can’t or won’t do his job should be replaced by one who can and will.
It’s 1933, and Franklin Graham is German theologian Paul Althaus
A limited but troubling historical analogy
Michael Cohen’s tell-all about Trump is mostly about himself
The moral lessons of his humiliation and imprisonment seem fairly limited.
The white Christian nationalist scam
Journalists Katherine Stewart and Anne Nelson unveil the mechanisms behind the rise of a movement.
What I’d like to say to President Trump about the Bible
I’d tell him a secret I learned from Eugene Peterson.