The United States needs some humility, but God help us if we don’t find it by God’s grace. Humility will come to any people because God loves us, but there is a pleasant way to learn a lesson and a less pleasant way. God help us to find the pleasant way: humbling ourselves before Almighty God. Humility is not a virtue, but a disposition that allows for all the virtues. Love is the great virtue, but without humility there can be no... Read more
A person I respect challenged me the other day over “Trumpism.” Why have so many people in my party gotten things so wrong? Why have so many religious people been attracted to Trumpism? Maybe people like I am have been doing it wrong. Where is the rot present in my own life? It is easy to call names, and Donald J. Trump is a target rich environment, but that is too easy. Lent starts tomorrow for Orthodox evangelicals such as... Read more
Write about race and there is nothing right to say. You cannot gain virtue by writing. All you can do is witness to the truth. We continue to have a problem with race in America. Forget for a moment how to solve the problem. Personally, I find most of the solutions proposed on the “left” useless at best and harmful at worst. But long before we get to the solutions, hadn’t we better notice we still have a problem? Thirteen... Read more
My social media is suddenly full of white nationalists crowing over a coming race war.Why? Facing protests, Donald J. Trump with a history of racial problems, has had to cancel a speech in Chicago. Protesters and Trump supporters began to fight on the floor of the hall. Video from the event shows both sides engaging in violence. Every day white nationalist supporters of Donald J. Trump fill social media with slurs, insults, and vile racism. They provoke and some fringe African-American... Read more
This is the weekend before the Tuesday that will determine if there will be a “brokered” convention. Let’s be simple: If Trump wins Ohio and Florida, he will be the nominee. I will not vote for him and the Party will split. If Trump wins Ohio or Florida, he might be the nominee, but he will not reach half the delegates. He will not win on the first ballot. If Trump loses both Ohio and Florida, he will not be... Read more
Talking to people who love Donald J. Trump is helpful. Leave out the Twitter-bot White nationalists (please!) and the crazy sycophants all candidates have who are not John Kasich. Talk to regular Republicans. My unscientific sample of Trump friends has them arguing three things about Donald J. Trump. First, they think Trump is an “outsider” and that he will bust the corrupt system. They point to “stop Trump” meetings of insiders and argue that this is proof of his outsider... Read more
Here we go . . . again. Together we will watch the returns to answer three questions: Does strategic voting continue? If so, this will be a rough night for Marco Rubio. Can Trump break 40% in two states he should carry easily? Or was Louisiana a foretaste of glory infernal for the businessman? Does Trump stay on track numerically? Much less than sixty delegates and he is in deep trouble. This is John Kasich’s state with Ohio next week.... Read more
It happened twice. The speaker asked the people gathered to raise their right hand and swear an oath: I do solemnly swear that I, no matter how I feel, no matter what the conditions, if there are hurricanes or whatever, will vote on or before the 12th for Donald J. Trump for President.” No Christian should have been able to say this oath. Why? It lacks what is in our Pledge of Allegiance: “under God.” I can vow service to... Read more
Nancy Reagan is dead. She is not the last of her era, George H.W. Bush and Barbara Bush remain with a few other senior hands, but the Party she knew is dead. Bob Dole was complaining on the news that he was a conservative, but that Kansas had become extreme. Whatever was good or bad about her time is fading and today, I recall the good. Nancy Reagan made her husband governor and then President of the United States. She... Read more
This is not really about politics. The other day Donald Trump said that “Little Marco” was a “chocker.” By this he meant choker, and Trump said, “a choker is always a choker.” Fortunately for the Donald after his loss in Iowa (big time chocking), this is not true. Scott Norwood missed a game winning field goal in the Super Bowl for the Bills (wide right!), but was a clutch kicker for the rest of his career and became a successful... Read more
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