I’ll let others describe the economic carnage President Trump’s tariffs already have begun to wreak. I want to describe the damage they will do to the American psyche and the American soul. I want to describe the damage they are…
US needs to be ‘born again’ from fear and anger, Sojourners leader says
The United States must be transformed to find the moral compass it needs to survive the deep-seated fear and anger dividing Americans and threatening constitutional democracy, Sojourners President Adam Russell Taylor said. “Part of what we need in this moment…
Can MAGA, MAHA and Adventists make America healthy again?
Long before Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was on the scene — much less overseeing health and human services for the United States — Seventh-day Adventists were trying to make Americans healthy again, promoting a plant-based diet and exercise as keys…
Will they know we are Christians by our love?
In church Sunday at First Baptist Asheville, the pastoral resident, Will Arledge, quoted a hymn from my childhood, closing a prayer with, “Let them ‘know we are Christians by our love.’” I was a child in the 1970s when this…
If Jesus loves me, why is Donald Trump ruining everything?
I heard one of those televangelists preaching at me online the other day, declaring with equal sincerity that Jesus loves me and that Donald Trump is the savior we’ve all been waiting for. I’m having a hard time reconciling these…
For whatever evangelicals sow, that will they also reap
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is continuing its march through the federal government after two months of chaos, and Christian organizations are beginning to feel the heat. On March 10, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that 83% of…
Two views of government as a Christian concern
Two months into Donald Trump’s second term as president, not a day has passed without news headlines of multiple controversial efforts of his administration to reshape the institutions of American government. Team members of the newly created Department of Government…
The Emperor’s New Clothes: Speaking truth to power
In Hans Christian Andersen’s timeless tale “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” an emperor’s obsession with vanity blinds him to the obvious truth that he’s been deceived by two con men. When the emperor parades through his kingdom in his supposed “new…
The MAGA Paradox: When political symbols in schools become tools of exclusion
Walking into my son’s Atlanta-based Jewish school, I was immediately confronted with a sight that left me unsettled: a child dressed as President Donald Trump, complete with a white MAGA hat, for Purim. As I processed my reaction, I considered…
Why empathy is under assault today
If empathy were a person, she would be in therapy for abuse. After a life of virtue, empathy has been cast into the street by an array of detractors as varied as billionaires, psychologists and evangelicals. The wealthiest man in…
CINO: Christian In Name Only
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.” (Matthew 7:21) We’ve all heard the term RINO. It means…
Burning down the church
Just prior to the 2008 presidential election, 52% of American adults attended worship. As the 2024 election approached, only 31% of the white American population was regularly in church, a decline of 21 percentage points. In 2008, 68% of 18-…