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Many Republicans Own This Insurrection

Responsibility for the storming of the Capitol extends well beyond President Trump. The post Many Republicans Own This Insurrection appeared first on Ethics & Public Policy Center.

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Christians as a Cultural Minority (Again)

These remarks are adapted from a December 6, 2020 presentation to a McLean Presbyterian Church Adult Education Class, “A Christian Approach to Politics.” The relationship between the culture and...

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The End of Trump Can Be the Beginning of America

It made sense that once President Trump left the White House, powerful emotions would be unleashed. The post The End of Trump Can Be the Beginning of America appeared first on Ethics & Public...

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The Moral Inversion of the Republican Party

In the original Star Trek series, there was an episode in which M-5, a revolutionary computer created by Dr. Richard Daystrom, is designed to handle all ship functions without human assistance. It’s...

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If Republicans Don’t Disown Trump, He Will Continue to Own Them

Five years ago, during a campaign rally in Iowa, Donald Trump famously said, “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters.” What no one knew at the time,...

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The Man Who Refused to Bow

Adam Kinzinger is a liberated individual—liberated from his party leadership, liberated from the fear of being beaten in a primary, liberated to speak his mind. The post The Man Who Refused to Bow...

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Why Is Jesus Still Wounded After His Resurrection?

As a person of the Christian faith, I’ve long understood what the Apostle Peter meant when he said, “By his wounds you have been healed.” But I have always wondered why Jesus, after his Resurrection,...

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The GOP Is a Grave Threat to American Democracy

The hope of many conservative critics of Donald Trump was that soon after his defeat, and especially in the aftermath of the January 6 insurrection, the Republican Party would snap back into its...

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The Battle Cry for a Post-Trump GOP

The most intriguing and perplexing political issue confronting the United States right now is the current state and future of the Republican Party. It has changed as dramatically and as quickly as...

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In Liz Cheney vs. Donald Trump, Guess Who Won

I asked a Republican who spent time with Representative Liz Cheney last week what her thinking was in speaking out so forcefully, so unyieldingly, against Donald Trump’s lie that the 2020 election was...

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Trump Is Marching Down the Road to Political Violence

At the beginning of last week, former President Donald Trump referred to the 2020 election as the “greatest Election Fraud in the history of our Country.” By the end of the week, he had issued a...

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An Interview with Dr. Francis Collins

As Francis Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Health, recounted the moment, his eyes welled with tears. A few months before, he and his colleague Anthony Fauci had confided in each...

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The Scandal Rocking the Evangelical World

“This is an earthquake,” a prominent Christian writer told me. The publication of an extraordinary February 24, 2020, letter by Russell Moore, one of the most influential and respected evangelicals in...

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Can Religion Be a Healing Force in Society?

Below is the text of the keynote address EPPC Senior Fellow Peter Wehner delivered on June 15 at the 2021 Religious Freedom Annual Review, hosted by the International Center for Law and Religious...

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Will Christian America Withstand the Pull of QAnon?

The scandals, jagged-edged judgmentalism and culture war mentality that have enveloped significant parts of American Christendom over the last several years, including the nation’s largest Protestant...

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The Moral Inversion of the Republican Party

Republicans are at risk of being devoured by the forces they placed in control. The post The Moral Inversion of the Republican Party appeared first on Ethics & Public Policy Center.

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If Republicans Don’t Disown Trump, He Will Continue to Own Them

Why do Republicans continue to defend a man who lost the popular vote by more than seven million votes, whose recklessness after the election cost them control of the Senate, and who is causing a...

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The Man Who Refused to Bow

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Why Is Jesus Still Wounded After His Resurrection?

All things, even broken things, can be made new again, and sometimes they can be made even more beautiful. And they need not be hidden, in shadows or in shame. The post Why Is Jesus Still Wounded After...

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The GOP Is a Grave Threat to American Democracy

The best thing those who love the Republican Party can do for it is to speak the truth about it. The post The GOP Is a Grave Threat to American Democracy appeared first on Ethics & Public Policy...

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