For a generation my church has been inclusive at every level of leadership: white, black, young, old, gay, straight, rich, poor. Little did I know it all began with our commitment to disabled smokers.
The Financial Times is a favorite, but there was such a disappointment on Easter Day...a bland piece about seeking little renewals in everyday life. The bodily resurrection of a crucified Jesus was a unique divine invasion that calls forth a complete shift in comprehension.
I've said this before, but "they saw SOMETHING" (Tom Holland's podcast of that name). That encapsulates what I believe. The disciples and Mary Magdalen saw HIM. I don't see how the Christian witness makes any sense without a transcendent event. Crucifixion can't be made pretty.
Of course TPUSA would endorse the corrupt serial adulterer. Of course.
That's part of the story of the moment. Christian MAGA embraces corrupt politicians and then browbeats everyone else with "binary choice" arguments after the primaries.
An actual Christian movement would demonstrate moral hygiene in its own primaries rather than exerting herculean efforts on behalf of some of the worst people in American politics.
Who’s going to tell @StephenM that Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra were the children of poor Italian immigrants to the US at a time when the “heritage Americans” of the day were seething with antipathy to Catholic and Jewish immigrants from southern & Eastern Europe?