Christianity, Trump and the evangelicals
One of the many curiosities about American Christianity is how a godless man like Donald Trump has managed to gain more devoted support from white…
… a Bill Longstaff blog
One of the many curiosities about American Christianity is how a godless man like Donald Trump has managed to gain more devoted support from white…
On Tuesday a gutsy lady in Washington spoke truth to power. At a church service in Washington National Cathedral, Bishop Mariann E. Budde preached a…
Any commitment the United States may have had to a rules-based international order has been sabotaged by President Trump. As far as he is concerned,…
Since the U.S. presidential election, I have had to pinch myself occasionally to believe I’m still in the real world. It just gets more and…
President-elect Donald Trump’s comment about making Canada the 51st state apparently has his supporters in stitches. A man never short of boorish comments to entertain…
In a recent post I discussed how an alienating communication environment helped elect Donald Trump. A number of other factors have been accused of contributing…
President-elect Donald Trump values loyalty above all. He has never hesitated to use menace and harassment to coerce into line or if necessary purge those…
How, exactly, does a such a creature as Donald Trump become president of the most powerful nation on Earth? The blame falls primarily, of course,…
Did the American people just vote, in a free and fair election, to terminate their experiment in Republican government? They’ve had a good run—248 years—but…
Quite a list of American publications, including The New York Times, Boston Globe, Seattle Times, Las Vegas Sun and The New Yorker, have endorsed Kamala…
Why, one wonders, would so many Americans be prepared to elect a president with such contempt for democracy, one of the country’s cardinal values. A…
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has responded to the Trump shooting by asking progressives to “dial down” the way they characterize conservative politicians, blaming them for…