by Mitch Randall | Jan 31, 2025 | Faith and Democracy, Feature, Opinion
Although it feels like eight years, America has endured only two weeks of Donald Trump’s second presidential term. After a flurry of controversial cabinet appointments and executive orders, the familiar feeling of chaos associated with Trump has already set into my...
by Matthew Dowd | Jan 29, 2025 | Faith and Democracy, Feature-, Opinion
Editor’s Note: A version of this column first appeared on Matthew Dowd’s Medium blog. It is republished with his permission. Whenever I go to Washington, D.C., I am still awed by visits to the Lincoln and Jefferson Memorials, the White House and the U.S. Capitol, the...
by Kali Cawthon-Freels | Jan 28, 2025 | Faith and Democracy, Feature-, Opinion
Last week, Mariann Edgar Budde, the Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of Washington, D.C., preached what many are calling the most important sermon of the 21st century. In the sermon, Budde publicly appealed to President Trump’s empathy, asking him to have mercy on...
by Craig Nash | Jan 23, 2025 | Christian Nationalism, Faith and Democracy, Feature, Opinion
With many voters listing immigration as one of their top two issues in the 2024 U.S. Presidential election, President Trump believes he has a mandate to enact some of his more extreme immigration proposals. I reached out to Stephen Reeves, Executive Director of...
by Mitch Randall | Jan 17, 2025 | Faith and Democracy, Feature, Opinion
On Monday, January 20, 2025, Donald J. Trump will take the oath of office and reassume the presidency. After Mr. Trump’s first term brought a Muslim ban, family separations at the border, praise for white supremacists, tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy, withdrawal from...
by Randall Balmer | Jan 16, 2025 | Faith and Democracy, Feature, Opinion
Donald Trump’s second inauguration coincides with the holiday celebrating Martin Luther King Jr., which can either bode well or badly. On the side of hope, I was struck by the tableau of presidents past, president and future at the funeral of the thirty-ninth...