(Note to readers: The following blog is a column I wrote for The News and Courier and Evening Post on July 16, 1989. It was the first column I wrote after being named the newspapers’ religion editor, and I’m repeating it now because it is more apropos to today than…
Not Voting is Not OK
It’s easy to think that MAGA Republicans represent the worst-ever threat to our American democracy, but they do not. They’re a threat, sure, a big threat, probably the second-most dangerous threat there is. But they pale in comparison with another group, a vastly larger and starkly well-defined group: eligible people…
Beware MAGA Christians
It’s no secret that organized Christianity is bleeding members at a significant rate, and it’s turning out that the Republican Party is emerging as a leading reason why. Another largely overlooked reason, and it may be connected, is that many departing Christians simply do not understand what they are rejecting.…
GOP: Please Nominate Trump
Today is Patriot Day in the United States, and I can think of no better way to commemorate it than to quote the sterling words of our former President Donald John Trump. On Dec, 4, 2022, Trump wrote on Truth Social, “Do you throw the Presidential Election Results of 2020…
The Six Raised Hands
When those six hands went up during the Republican presidential debate a few days ago, I thought it qualified as the year’s most terrifying moment. And at the time it did. But no longer. MAGA Republicans have superseded it. Polls show that as many as 80 percent of Republicans say…