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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.
Loving your political enemy at the National Prayer Breakfast
Arthur Brooks gave the room an important assignment. President Trump turned it down.
Major stories in American Christianity of the 2010s
How faith has been shaped by Obergefell, the Charleston murders, Me Too, and more
If Trump is impeached, it will be hard for Senate Republicans to vote to convict him
They need to do it anyway.
A president who thinks he can do whatever he wants
Trump’s position is not that the facts will vindicate him. It’s that they don’t matter.