Civil Commotion

I doubt that many people at all are standing in line for an opportunity to serve on a Trump council. As I said months ago, Trump’s high tide was election day; ever since, the tide has been going out. An odious buffoon can’t hide the truth about himself forever.

Though the Wartburg Ladies and I obviously disagree on some pretty big things, I’ve always thought well of them because they aren’t crazy and, what is more and better, they are courageous. Though congregations can overwhelmingly be relied upon to rally around the pastor who is raping their kids, for instance, those two go after the pastors and draw blood — and good for them.

Y’all will not be surprised to learn that some people find this behavior annoying.

A letter about TWW’s coverage of Dr Iain Campbell, Tom Chantry, and Al Mohler’s ill advised CJ Mahaney joke was sent to, get ready:

• Dee’s church-pastors and people on the leadership team

• The denomination’s President, etc

• A community board of which Dee sits with her husband

• Former pastors

• The person who sent it even pretended it was sent from a regional denomination headquarters.

Well … people who slither around in the dark and surreptitiously undermine other people’s lives are kind of par for the course in conservative Christianity; I’m not shocked so much as saddened and surprised this hasn’t happened earlier. But … no matter. They’re a quality act over there, their friends know better, and to hell with the rest. Best wishes, Ladies.

The Gallup Daily puts Trump’s job approval rating at a new low — 34%.

I should not have to establish how utterly evil this all is. What we are seeing now is a symptom of our flight from God as a people.

Alan Cross, SBC Voices

And, yet, virtually every last one of the ignorant white-trash who flocked to Charlottesville to rally around the statue of Robert E. Lee would have identified himself as a devout Christian; undoubtedly, many of them attended a Southern Baptist church as a visitor Sunday morning, and listened to sermons that flirt with outright sedition. Go figure.

I have a message to the white supremacists and the nazis who came into Charlottesville today: Go home. You are not wanted in this great commonwealth. You pretend that you are patriots, but you are anything but patriots.

Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe