April 4, 2016 Politics and Religion Donald Trump’s prosperity preachers Prosperity preachers “are like him, they are outsiders with an unusual amount of popular support but not as … much cultural credibility.” TIME magazine
April 4, 2016 Conscientious Voting What Makes a Christian voter? A Divinity School professor says the question for Christian voters “is whether they can turn their vote into a petition for more love in the world. … My hunch is that if they do, we might see politicians who give them something to vote for.” The Huffington Post
Jedediah Purdy on social media and the election
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Political change and cultural backlash
Gun Control
Bill Clinton’s crime bill ambivalence
reason.com
Politics and Religion
Donald Trump’s prosperity preachers
Prosperity preachers “are like him, they are outsiders with an unusual amount of popular support but not as … much cultural credibility.”
TIME magazine
Conscientious Voting
What Makes a Christian voter?
A Divinity School professor says the question for Christian voters “is whether they can turn their vote into a petition for more love in the world. … My hunch is that if they do, we might see politicians who give them something to vote for.”
The Huffington Post
Nicholas professor Drew Shindell on the struggle to reduce air emissions
Security Issues
Russian warplanes buzz U.S. navy ship
WPTF’s “On Security”
Gunther Peck on a Supreme Court decision regarding labor unions
Redistricting
You call that a district?
Venezuela
Energy crisis in Venezuela
CNN