The speakers largely advanced the ideas that the U.S. has a religious — and particularly Christian — founding and that its future success depends on prayer.
Notably absent from the lineup are representatives from other non-Christian faiths, such as Islam or Indigenous spiritual traditions, or leaders from mainline Christian or historically Black denominations.
‘If they wanted this to be a unifying American project, there would have been a whole lot more attention to getting political diversity and ideological diversity,’ added Brian Kaylor of Word&Way.
This issue of A Public Witness looks at what we know so far about the targeting of international college students for deportation and what it could mean for Christian schools.
In a cable sent Friday to all U.S. diplomatic missions, Secretary of State Marco Rubio asked that staffers report any perceived discriminatory actions due to things like opposition to vaccines or personal pronoun choice.