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The Threat is Real: How Trump Undermines Elections, Threatens Election Officials & Poll Workers
From state election offices to the steps of the Capitol, a sustained campaign against the legitimacy of the vote reshaped what Americans expect from democracy—and what election workers now endure. In most American elections, the drama belongs to the candidates. The people who make voting possible—the retirees checking names against rolls, the county clerks watching…
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The Moral Case for Prison Reform
How we run prisons and treat prisoners is not only cruel and inhumane, it fails to rehabilitate inmates. Introduction Prison systems around the world stand at a crossroads, and the choices we make carry real human consequences. For many people, incarceration is not an abstract policy debate—it is a son or daughter missing from the…
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What American Evangelicals Forgot
The Trees and the Forest Too many Christians become so focused on the details of faith—what I call the “trees”—that we lose sight of the forest. We argue about the proper way to believe, the precise mechanics of salvation, the exact formula of baptism, the correct style of worship, the right vocabulary for prayer, and…
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Muslim Americans Are Among the Least Likely to Support Violence—And Political Violence Can Be Higher in Some U.S. Subgroups, Including White Evangelicals
In the United States, fear often speaks louder than evidence—especially when it comes to Muslims. Public discourse continues to imply that Islamic belief is uniquely linked to violence, an assumption reinforced by selective media coverage and political rhetoric. Yet decades of empirical research tell a very different story. If Americans are serious about religious freedom…
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Called to Love Everyone, Even When We Feel Uncomfortable.
Many of us grow up learning that love is a virtue, even a command—something we owe to family, friends, neighbors, and people who feel familiar. Yet the true measure of love is not how warmly we treat those who already fit our preferences or beliefs; it is whether we can extend dignity, care, and goodwill…
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The Dangers of Political Hatred in Democracy
America does not suffer from an excess of political disagreement. It suffers from a collapse of civic restraint. Disagreement is inevitable in a pluralistic democracy. In fact, it is essential. But in recent years, political identity has increasingly become a moral sorting mechanism—one that divides neighbors into abstractions and encourages citizens to interpret disagreement as…
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What Trump’s election is teaching our children (including Christian kids)
I’m not writing this to debate policy. I’m writing about what kids learn when adults say one thing about character and then reward another thing at the ballot box. When a public figure can behave in ways we’d punish in our own homes—mocking opponents, spreading misinformation, bragging, name-calling, and dodging accountability—and still be celebrated as…
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Do Republicans Have a Nazi Problem—or are Republicans Merely Unwilling to Offend Racist Supporters Because Racist Typically Vote Republican? A Proposed Solution.
Nazi-era references keep resurfacing around Republican politics—not always as direct ideological alignment, but as a recurring pattern of rhetoric, online behavior, and uncomfortable proximity that the party’s leaders too often treat as a one-day story. Each time it happens, the party tends to respond with a familiar rhythm: some figures condemn it, others shrug, and…
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The Country That Stopped Replacing Itself. Why America Needs Immigrants.
With fertility hovering around 1.6 children per woman—well below the roughly 2.1 needed to replace a generation—the U.S. can either import workers, redesign institutions for smaller cohorts, or do both. Choosing neither will be the most expensive option. For years, America has treated falling birth rates as an academic concern—fodder for demographers and anxious op-eds.…
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Hospitality Toward Foreigners
A Christian Call to Welcome the Stranger in an Age of Fear In times marked by fear and division, God’s people are tempted to draw tight circles—our people, our culture, our comfort. Scripture consistently interrupts that instinct with a clear command: welcome the stranger. Christian hospitality is not social politeness or political signaling; it is…