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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.
Russell Moore speaks truth to his community
The Christianity Today editor and former Southern Baptist leader is gravely concerned about the soul of US evangelicalism.
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