With thousands of Americans showing up in 1,500 cities for “No Kings” protests against President Donald Trump Saturday, I wanted to know what motivated people and what they experienced. So I did what any modern journalist would do: I posted…
From votes to violence: Trump’s betrayal of Latino loyalty
What began as a peaceful protest in downtown Los Angeles quickly spiraled into a full-scale federal crackdown — rubber bullets, flash grenades, tear gas and a federally activated National Guard descending not on an enemy nation, but on American citizens….
Pope has phone call with Putin same day Trump does
As tensions between Russia and Ukraine continue to escalate despite international efforts to broker a ceasefire, Pope Leo XIV Wednesday afternoon had a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Presidential pardons: From prisoners to political supporters
Presidential pardons have long sparked debate in American politics, often reflecting the values and priorities of the leader in office. But under President Donald Trump, the use of this constitutional power has taken on a new dimension that blurs the…
Where’s Franklin Graham?
After a starring role in the sequel to Donald Trump’s return to power, Franklin Graham is mainly missing from the cameras. Or so it seems. The latest we’ve heard from Graham, he was named to serve on the president’s Religious…
Who Gets a Seat at the Last Supper?
Donald Trump’s re-election has sent many scrambling for historical comparisons. There is somehow comfort in the discovery (or at any rate the assertion) that there are precedents for even the most confusing and chaotic aspects of our uncertain present.
Evangelical Trump Hypocrisy Syndrome strikes again
Imagine former President Joe Biden, a devout Catholic, posting a social media meme riffing off The Blues Brothers movie and declaring he’s “on a mission from God.” Conservatives would have lost their ever-loving minds. This would have been further evidence…
‘Freedom of speech is under attack,’ Pelley tells Wake Forest grads
CBS journalist Scott Pelley’s commencement address at Wake Forest University urged graduates to defend democracy and freedom of speech — and set MAGA world ablaze in the process. While the author and 60 Minutes correspondent never mentioned President Donald Trump…
As Trump gloats about building prisons, people of faith must fight mass incarceration
President Donald Trump has suggested he wants to throw more people behind bars and keep them there for longer.
Children in the marketplace
Jesus said it: But to what will I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling to one another, “We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we wailed, and you did not…
The Episcopal Church refuses to help Trump Make Apartheid Great Again
On Wednesday, May 21, President Donald Trump once again sullied the presidency and our nation’s reputation by ambushing South African President Cyril Ramaphosa with a made-for-social-media propaganda stunt that was peppered with lies and misleading video about an alleged white…
Faith leaders decry ‘big beautiful bill’ as immoral and un-Christian
Apart from evangelicals and die-hard Trump supporters, America’s religious leaders find the president’s “big beautiful bill” adopted by the U.S. House of Representatives to be immoral, unkind and un-Christian. “Page for page, the ‘big beautiful bill’ championed by Mr. Trump…