romans 13

Trump’s supporters are busy combing the scriptures for that perfect verse that justifies the president violently blasting his way through a crowd of peaceful protestors to hold up a Bible for a photo…

Yesterday, President Donald Trump stood in front of St. John’s Episcopal Church in Washington, DC, holding a Bible aloft as a nod to his white Christian nationalist base as he condemned those who…

I’ve said it before, and if you’re reading this, you’ve very likely heard the same thing darkly muttered among liberals and progressives if you haven’t said it yourself: I never thought anything could…

Pete Buttigieg and other Democrats have begun to talk up their Christian beliefs in hope of appealing to more voters, but there are a few problems with that approach.

His hollow performances of Christian piety are so illegible because Trump’s object of worship isn’t the God of Abraham, or even the United States. To Trump, land borders themselves are holy, worth honoring with menacing shrines and protecting with the blood of innocents.

The #metoo and #churchtoo movements have put SBC leaders on the defensive, as earlier revelations of widespread child sexual abuse by priests did to the all-male Roman Catholic hierarchy. Yet both groups continue to deny that there could be any connection between all-male power and the sexual abuse of women and children.

Surely most of us, no matter our political bent, feel sad for the entrapped children in both circumstances. But our collective conscience leads us to two different interventions on their behalf.

One critic was like, “Rachel Held Evans bases her Biblical interpretation on all the feels”… So I took a picture of my endnotes, which are lengthy, and sent them to him with the note, “All the feels, page 1,” “All the feels, page 2”…

After all the uproar over Jeff Sessions’ use of Romans 13 to defend the extravagant cruelty of separating migrant families at the U.S. border, you might be tempted to bet against administration members citing scripture.

This view of government did not spring into existence with this administration or with the Truth Project—Focus users have been learning it for decades.