Informal evangelical Christian advisers to President Donald Trump have long championed religious freedom as a key issue that should be embraced by the administration, often arguing passionately against government infringement on religious activities.
Cloaking himself in religion for the second day in a row, President Donald Trump sought to seize the moral authority to justify his hard line against demonstrators protesting the killing of another black man in police custody and at the same time mobilize his religious conservative base.
Early Monday evening (June 1), President Trump stood before the historic St. John’s Episcopal Church in downtown Washington, DC, and held aloft a Bible for cameras. The church appeared to be completely abandoned. It was, in fact, abandoned, but not by choice.
It began with Attorney General Bill Barr standing with his hands casually in his pockets, not wearing a tie, surveying the scene at Lafayette Park across from the White House, where several thousand protesters had gathered for more demonstrations after the police killing of George
The headline-making revelations Norma McCorvey offered in the recently premiered documentary “AKA Jane Roe” stand little chance of denting anti-abortion activists’ momentum in Washington.
Perhaps we shouldn’t applaud being called “essential.” A government with the power to designate us as “essential” also has the power to designate us as not.
Since February, President Trump has said the virus will "go away" at least 15 times, most recently on May 15. While his response to the pandemic seems contrary to reality, his biographers say Trump learned how to craft his own version of reality in an
Trump’s recent pivot towards a number of proponents of the prosperity gospel —including his promotion of Paula White as a Special Advisor within the administration — had left some traditional evangelists wondering what they got into.
President Trump’s job approval ratings among some faith groups jumped in March as the number of coronavirus infections began to spread across the country. But that "Trump bump" has all but disappeared.
In an Apr. 25 conference call for Catholic leaders and educators, President Donald Trump identified himself as the “best [president] in the history of the Catholic Church,” where he warned that issues at stake in the upcoming presidential election, particularly on abortion and religious liberty,