What better describes Donald Trump than Goldberg’s characterization of the Klan: “bitter, humorless, and fearful of all things foreign.”
James BrattDecember 8, 2023
Donald Trump may be neither the antichrist nor the devil incarnate but the demon of America.
James BrattOctober 6, 2023
If people recognize Harriet Beecher Stowe, it is as the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. But she was also familiar…
James BrattSeptember 8, 2023
To see “the infinite beauty of the love of God at the heart of reality” is counterintuitive in the extreme…
James BrattAugust 11, 2023
Rage and fear and contempt have been brewing for a while. I want to suggest that the descent began fifty…
James BrattJuly 4, 2023
Religious identity isn't only being shaped by doctrines and beliefs, but also living in community with others shaped by those…
James BrattMarch 24, 2023
Compared to the big bangs of 1922, 1923 offered mostly whimpers. But small signals can have big reverberations, so we…
James BrattDecember 30, 2022
Lincoln’s proclamation brilliantly interwove the two types of New England holy days, the feast and the fast.
James BrattDecember 2, 2022
I can’t help being dogged by a sense of gray for all that. Slate gray, storm-cloud gray. And that’s because…
James BrattOctober 28, 2022
