For the last decade, I, like many, have tried to make sense of what’s going on across the border and have been dumbfounded by Christians gleefully signing on to MAGA. We need fresh theological insights. Happily, Lee Camp’s book Scandalous Witness, first published in 2020 during Trump One, is newly re-released and is more relevant…
A few years ago, Christian nationalism was not well known, but now headlines regularly remind us of its centrality to the MAGA agenda. Christian nationalism insists that Christian precepts ought to be law and enforced by the state. Advocates believe that the Founding Fathers intended to establish the United States as a democracy whose ultimate…
Iran has had an outsized influence in the Middle East since ancient times. The Persian empire figures prominently in several books of the Old Testament, primarily because of King Cyrus’ role in permitting the Jews to return to their homeland and rebuild the Jerusalem temple. Since then several dynasties have ruled Persia, extending their influence…
Recently, while shopping at Cub Foods, I noticed shelves being stocked in the afternoon rather than the evening. The store was clearly short-staffed; the manager himself was stocking shelves. It was a symptom of something much more sinister. Since mid-December, Donald Trump’s Operation Metro Surge has placed up to 3,000 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)…
Minneapolis holds a special place in my heart because, as a young man, I attended a Christian university in Minnesota’s Twin Cities. I grew to love the area’s numerous lakes, Minnehaha Falls, the many Lutheran churches, the Dinkytown neighbourhood near the University and the many friendly, hospitable people who lived there. There is even a…
On January 6, I had two long and separate Zoom calls with close Venezuelan friends. They offered differing perspectives on the state of the nation, though both were deeply disturbed by the United States of America’s military incursion on January 3, which resulted in the capture – or, as they both called it, kidnapping –…
Editor’s note: this opinion piece began as a letter to the editor. Many people are rightly condemning the Trump government’s blatant attempt to annex Greenland. Because it is a clear abrogation of international law and a refusal to respect the sovereign boundaries of existing nations, many nations are rightly fearful about their own future. Thankfully,…
Last November, Trump declared Nigeria a Country of Particular Concern, a designation reserved for nations where religious persecution happens. This gave the president power to impose sanctions on Nigerian officials. But Trump didn’t stop there. On social media, he threatened to stop aid and to “go into that now-disgraced country, ‘guns-a-blazing,’ to completely wipe out…
As I write, we have just learned that Donald Trump has captured Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and his wife, following several weeks in which American forces had been destroying seagoing vessels in the Caribbean on the pretext that they were shipping contraband drugs to the United States. This is the latest development for an administration…
Since Blessed are the Undone came out, I’ve been invited to talk about faith deconstruction in classrooms, board rooms and churches – and once, maybe fittingly, in a working art studio, where every surface had a layer of colourful grit. At the All Canada Summit in Kitchener, Ontario, on November 7, I wore a T-shirt…
Recently, President Trump, with the backing of U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, went on a tirade arguing that pregnant women should not take Tylenol (acetaminophen) as it can lead to autism. He implied that the explosive epidemic of autism is due to the behaviour of mothers, in the medicine that they inappropriately consume. There…
How did we get to a place where citizens of the world’s leading democracy elected an anti-democratic government? That question is answered in colourful detail by Katherine Stewart in this new book. While the answer is not encouraging for those who care about good governance, it offers a deeper understanding of reality and some glimpses…
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