After the latest alleged attempt on Donald Trump’s life at the White House correspondents’ dinner on April 25, 2026, some of his Christian supporters responded in a way that has become almost routine. His survival, they said, was the hand…
Now some evangelicals see Trump as biblical King Jehu
Last time around, some evangelicals compared Donald Trump to the biblical king Cyrus as an imperfect instrument of God’s work. This time around, some of those same evangelicals have shifted biblical metaphors. Now, Trump is a modern-day Jehu. In case…
What’s Cyrus have to do with Advent?
As the semester comes to a close for me, I am able to do a bit of reflecting on the work I’ve done and what I’ve read. One line from Xenophon’s Cyropaedia in particular stood out to me: For I…