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Parental Despair over Trump’s Orphans

By Robin Bates | Published: October 23, 2020

Spiritual Sunday I don’t throw around the word “evil” lightly, but the Trump administration deliberately and systematically tearing children away from their asylum-seeking parents was evil. Although some of the children were still breastfeeding, Trump and his minions didn’t care enough to ensure the families could be reunited, which means that he may have created […]

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The Christian Right’s Faustian Bargain

By Robin Bates | Published: July 6, 2019

Spiritual Sunday Like many liberal Christians, I am baffled by Donald Trump’s popularity amongst rightwing evangelicals. How can anyone square the president’s behavior and his policies with Jesus’s teachings? A recent Atlantic article provides a compelling explanation: feeling embattled, the Christian right has traded core Christian principles for power. In a post written a year […]

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America’s Dark Fairy Tale

By Robin Bates | Published: November 27, 2018

Gordimer’s “Once Upon a Time” is about a wall to keep out perceived dangers that turns into a nightmare. As such, it works as a parable about Trump’s wall.

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