Carter Wrenn
Gary Pearce
Staring at my computer I watched a six-year-old video of Donald Trump speaking during the Iowa Republican primary – asked: Have you ever asked God for forgiveness? He answered, I don’t think so. A friend called, liking Trump he laughed, Trump’s a New York street fighter – asking for forgiveness isn’t in his blood. But…
Read MoreTrump gave an order: Don’t certify the election results. Mitch McConnell disobeyed. Angry, offended, sitting in a room full of Republican donors at Mar-a-Lago, Trump struck back, called McConnell a ‘dumb son-of-a-bitch.’ The problem isn’t that Trump dislikes McConnell – it’s how Trump went about it: Hurling insults. And, worse, it’s people cheering as he…
Read MoreProfound faith: Laying wounded on a gurney staring up at the emergency room ceiling, an assassin’s bullet lodged an inch from his heart, hemorrhaging internally, Ronald Reagan said a prayer for the crazed young man who’d just shot him; later, fighting to win the Cold War, Reagan warned, If we forget we are one nation…
Read MoreTo get reelected Trump had to win one war: He had to beat Joe Biden with Independents. He failed. But, as we hear Trumpsters say every day, most Republicans are still blindly loyal to Trump. Gospel truth? Or heresy? Forty-four years ago when I managed Ronald Reagan’s first Presidential campaign in North Carolina we fought…
Read MoreWhen I was ten years old walking along a muddy dirt road beside a wide creek at the foot of a hill I glanced down, saw a black tree branch lying in a patch of sunlight in the mud – behind me my gray-haired uncle said, Stop. A snake reared up in the air in…
Read MorePresident Trump’s spokesman, Jason Miller, declared to Fox News, “Trump effectively is the Republican party.” Years ago conservatives, like Ronald Reagan, rebuilt the Republican party based on conservative principles that reflected the gospels they believed in. That led to battles between Republicans and Democrats on issues. Many of those conservative issues were weapons in Trump’s…
Read MoreLocked in his prison cell in Rome Saint Paul wrote Timothy: In the last days…men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, slanderers, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure… Lying in bed the other night reading that I thought, The end times may be closer than I thought. But it turned out…
Read MoreI remember a thin, tall, blonde boy, back in high school, who’d set his tray on the table in the cafeteria, start talking – and he couldn’t stop; mocking a girl’s dress, a football player’s stammer, a math teacher’s hairdo he’d talk on and on. Trump likes to talk too. Morning, noon and night he’s…
Read MoreIn the old days, when we all voted on election day, election nights had a kind of normalcy – votes trickled in, then rolled in, but huge puzzling swings were rare. Then early voting started and unexpected swings began to happen on election nights. For some reason Democrats like voting early while Republicans prefer walking…
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