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Christianity Today: “Trump Should Be Removed from Office”

By Mark | December 20, 2019

Remember how, not too long ago, we were talking here about Donald Trump’s desperate attempt to shore up his support among evangelical voters as Congress started moving toward impeachment? Well, it apparently didn’t work so well. Yesterday, the influential evangelical magazine Christianity Today, which was started by Billy Graham back in 1956, published a scathing […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged #ChristiansAgainstTrump, abuse of power, Billy Graham, bribery, Christianity Today, Constitution, corruption, Donald Trump, editorial, evangelical, extortion, impeachment, Mark Galli, Paula White, religion, Ukraine | 36 Comments

Dear Mr. Trump: Will You Advance a Moral Agenda?

By Mark | December 30, 2016

Tomorrow night, as people around the world gather to celebrate the coming of 2017, Reverend Dr. William Barber II, along with several other leaders of the American faith community, will be congregating at the historic Metropolitan AME Church in Washington, DC for what they’re calling a National Watch Night service. The purpose of the gathering, […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Ben Carson, Donald Trump, Education, God, Higher Ground Moral Declaration, human rights, Jeff Sessions, morals, National Watch Night, poverty, prison reform, public education, race, race and poverty, religion, sentencing reform, Steve Bannon, voting rights, William Barber | 246 Comments

Reverend Dr. William Barber II on reclaiming the moral high ground and building a majority coalition around issues of social justice

By Mark | September 2, 2014

Reverend Dr. William Barber II, the North Carolina minister who founded the Forward Together moral movement, is in the press today. It would seem that a young man in his group was arrested yesterday in Charlotte, at one of Barber’s Moral Monday events, for putting voter registration information on the windshields of parked cars. As […]

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Religion, a net positive?

By Mark | January 24, 2012

A few days ago, in response to a post about my aunt, who had been swindled by a member of her church in Wisconsin, a reader by the name of Mr. X left the following comment. Has religion given us more good than bad, historically speaking? I’d like to say that it was a positive […]