Once upon a time, we were prepared to think of the president of the United States as the universal symbol of the country. Now he’s little more than the shepherd of one or the other partisan tribe.
"...the priorities of the university are political power and earthly wealth. For this, I call Liberty University and its leadership to repent and return to the gospel."
Alongside the religious rage that brought Trump to power, there is indeed a long black-led freedom movement that has spoken prophetically against the institutional racism and brazen hypocrisy of a nation built on the original sin of race-based slavery.
“Do you think God sent Hurricane Irene?” a young man asked me with a curious look in his eyes that was as innocent as it was pensive.
My mind flashed back to a headline I remembered reading yesterday about Gle...