Author, pastor, activist, fighter for the common good.
John Pavlovitz
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Just a few days before Easter Sunday, this cosplaying, snake oil peddling religious huckster proudly stood before Conservatives at CPAC and preached the dehumanizing, racist, violent, perverse Gospel of Donald Trump...
Whether they are abandoning their orange messiah due to human rights atrocities, war crimes, pedophile protection, or simply high gas prices and a decimated 401K, how should we respond?
Should we demand a strict, no-tolerance policy for former Trumpers, a permanent scarlet letter, forever exempting them from full inclusion in the larger collective?
Should we warmly welcome them into the resistance movement and exempt them from accountability for the sins of their recent past?
He made no impassioned appeal to the self-identified Christians listening, to replicate the heart of Jesus by rallying around the vulnerable, the oppressed, the poor, and the foreigner; to flip the tables of the powerful who prey upon the least of these...
Look, I’m not a theological expert by any means, but I feel fairly confident in saying that if the Hell Conservative Evangelicals promise does exist, Franklin Graham is a slam dunk.
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There are very few hard and fast rules to all of this, but here’s what I believe we owe defecting MAGAs… and what we don’t:
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There’s a good deal of online dialogue lately about how we should be responding to people around us, who are finally beginning to extricate themselves from the MAGA death cult...
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He did not use the moment of consequence to condemn the unprovoked bombing of Iranian citizens or the illegal and immoral war visited on their nation.
He delivered no fiery sermon against the genocide in Gaza, the intentional starving of the Cuban people, or the brutal attacks on Lebanon...
Leading into Holy Week, Christianity’s marking of the last few days of Jesus’ life, Franklin Graham stood behind a podium to address American Conservatives at CPAC...
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He didn’t unleash righteous fury at a presidential regime protecting a network of wealthy rapists and pedophiles.
He did not decry America’s renaissance of open racism, its persecution of immigrants, or its sinful lack of affordable healthcare...
