One of the topics I’ve written about is twentieth-century Islamism, or political Islam. As most of you know, I’m a Christian theologian and an Islamicist (Islamic Studies scholar). Focus instead on what happens when religion mixes with politics, and here specifically, when religion gets hijacked to bolster the power of a particular regime. John’s Church for his political purposes.” Had he opened the Bible, she mused, he could have read aloud about love of God and neighbor, about seeking “God in the face of strangers,” about the call “to the highest standard of love, which is justice.” Episcopal Bishop Mariann Budde of the Diocese of Washington registered her “outrage” at the event, mostly because of “the president’s use of the Bible and the backdrop of St.
They were cleaning up after a day of providing water and other help to the protesters. John’s Episcopal Church near the White House, minutes after the police and national guard teargassed the demonstrators that had stood in his path, including at least one Episcopal priest and a seminarian in the church courtyard. I hope this infamous image will go down in history as a cautionary tale: President Trump’s photo-op brandishing a Bible in front of St.
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