Here is another magnificent, thoughtful essay by David Brooks. And he references Psalm 73.
“As the founders would have understood, he is a threat to the long and glorious experiment of American self-government. He is precisely the kind of scapegoating, promise-making, fear-driving and deceiving demagogue they feared.” David Brooks
A letter from Mesopotamia. In which is witnessed the disturbing looting of unexplored archaeological sites.
Source: On grave robbers’ heels
Here is a great analysis of American Evangelical-Fundamentalist Christianity by Randall Balmer
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Evangelicals’ Support of Trump Shouldn’t Come as Surprise
“America’s evangelicals have become secular, more interested in the pursuit of wealth and political influence than fidelity to the teachings of Jesus.”