President Donald Trump's endorsement of the "God Bless the USA" Bible has been met with a storm of criticism. Some are calling it "sacrilege" and "heresy," and others claim he is taking advantage of people's faith for the sake of money. Others claim that by associating America with the Bible he is promoting Christian nationalism, which they insist is dangerous and un-American. I am not writing here to speculate about Trump's motives in partnering in the promotion of this Bible. My concern is the...
Over a week after presumptive 2024 Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump began selling his own Bibles, Christians unleashed mixed reactions. The special edition Bible retails for $59.99 as a King James version of the holy text with the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, and the Pledge of Allegiance. Its name is […]
Former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden are salesmen — historically great ones, in fact. It’s not a knock. Waging a successful run for the White House, an achievement both men can boast, is a sales job of epic proportions. Successful presidential campaigns don’t just sell a laundry list of policy items, nor do […]
Christian nationalism takes many forms. Some pose a threat because of their proximity to political and legal power; others because they accelerate racist and antisemitic rhetoric; and still others because they might incite violence.
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For conservative, anti-abortion Christians, former President Donald Trump delivered in four years what no other Republican before him had been able to do: A conservative majority U.S. Supreme Court that would go on to overturn Roe v. Wade, a Holy Grail of the movement. With abortion rights now controlled by each state, rather than legalized []
For conservative, anti-abortion Christians, former President Donald Trump delivered in four years what no other Republican before him had been able to do: A conservative majority U.S. Supreme Court that […]
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Justice Ellen Gesmer did not say when she would rule.
Justice Ellen Gesmer did not say when she would rule.