by Joel Searby | Sep 15, 2020 | Commentary, Shareable
To whom can I speak and give warning? Who will listen to me? Their ears are closed so they cannot hear. — Jeremiah 6:10 Jeremiah was as good as it gets in the prophet business, but he could be a bit of a downer. In this respect, the opinion columnist is his...
by Joel Searby | Sep 15, 2020 | Commentary, Shareable
This is not an intellectual stupidity. I imagine Trump’s I.Q. is fine. It is a moral and emotional stupidity. He blunders so often and so badly because he has a narcissist’s inability to get inside the hearts and minds of other people. It’s a...
by Joel Searby | Sep 15, 2020 | Commentary, Shareable
“You’re a traitor to the cause.” In one form or another, that’s the charge most often made against so-called Never Trumpers, a group of which I consider myself an early and unofficial co-founder. The well-being of both the...
by Joel Searby | Sep 15, 2020 | Commentary, Shareable
Few public debates have been as confusing or more filled with flawed legal arguments than the fight over content moderation on social media. But on May 28 Donald Trump took action that brought the true stakes into sharp focus. Acting to protect his own Twitter feed,...
by Joel Searby | Sep 14, 2020 | Commentary, Shareable
I think Amy Sullivan said it best when she wrote that Trump is “pretty much the human embodiment of the question ‘What would Jesus not do?’” Indeed, Trump’s personal mottoes—“always get even” and “hit back...
by Joel Searby | Sep 14, 2020 | Commentary, Shareable
Confusion. Disbelief. Frustration. Disappointment. These are the feelings I most regularly experience these days. The primary cause? White American Evangelicals…
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