Benjamin Corey has a graduate degree from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and a doctorate from Fuller Theological Seminary, a multidenominational Christian evangelical seminary in Pasadena,. He's the author of Undiluted: Rediscovering The Radical Message Of Jesus and Unafraid: Moving Beyond Fear-Based Faith. Last week Corey penned an essay, Could American Evangelicals Spot the Antichrist?
My friend Frank-- whose dad was one of the 3 founders of the Moral Majority movement-- left evangelical Christianity many years ago... loudly. Yesterday, je sent me this video from Italy, where he's on vacation. He sure doesn't like fascists! "Be warned, America," he said, "when you elect a Nazi German to represent your country, who then calls other people "foreigners," when he is a foreigner-- because it is not an American idea to put children in cages...
Late yesterday, Only Through US, an organization whose goal is empowering citizens to protect American principles and freedoms from fear-based politics, issued a long-titled press release, Shock and horror are insufficient responses to today’s New Zealand mosques shooting.
-by Frank SchaefferHere’s how to define Donald Trump: Trump is the intersection where all the con-artists, sleaze-bags, petty criminals, anti-democracy thugs, white evangelical losers and delusional racist fanatics on the planet met and fell in love with each other.Question: Is there ANY low-rent moron scum Trump is NOT working with or for?From the backward woman-torturing murdering Saudi “prince” to Putin (the world’s sleaziest los
Chances are Mike Pence might become president through Trump’s resignation, impeachment or arrest.A Pence presidency is a horrible possibility because every entity related to Trump is either bankrupt, closed or under investigation. Trump Casinos, Trump Golf Courses, The Trump Foundation, Trump University, the Trump Campaign Transition, the Trump Inaugural Committee and the Trump White House all are under some sort of cloud or investigation.
The video above is a brief talk almost a decade ago (2009) by one of America's most brilliant political theorists, Wendy Brown, a U.C., Berkeley professor, one of whose specialties is canonical political theory, and who, at the time of the video, was finishing top work on her 2010 book, Walled States, Waning Sovereignty. Obama, you'll recall, was still early in his first term when she made the video-- and was writing that book. Trump was still just a bankrupt TV clown scrambling for a few bucks wherever he could get it.
