www.christianitytoday.com/2025/02/doge...

I see distressingly little difference between the German Christian Movement of the 1930s and American Christian Nationalism in the 2020s.

I’m not being hyperbolic; I’m dead serious. And if you’re inclined to doubt or dispute this, I invite you to examine the history for yourself.

The richest man in the world, given immense power by the presidential administration, is publicly and unashamedly dehumanizing entire groups of people. The result of this sort of purposeful "us vs them" is always violence.

When we say this is spiritual warfare, this is what we mean.

"It’s tempting, for me, when confronted with such objectively degrading slander to respond in kind... Of course, the instant we succumb to dehumanization, the battle has been lost."

buttondown.com/david.w.swan...

My latest for @theatlantic.com on why we need to be careful about confidently declaring God’s will as it relates to politicians and elections.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

On this Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday, before your read anything else about the presidential inauguration, please read this by @richtywil.bsky.social.

richardtwilson.substack.com/p/an-inaugur...