Your account of your experience waiting in line with your daughter at the Trump rally was eye-opening for me. It shows, for one thing, the power of our environment, which (as I think Montessori pointed out) is stronger than our wills. We moved this month from bright-blue Arlington, VA to a bright-red town in Tennessee. We're not sure how long we'll be here, but I'm encouraged by your reported outings to be as adventurous here as I started to be in Arlington.
As you mentioned it is not too late. Despite what’s in front of us we need not to lose a most precious gift , the gift of the moment. Whether Christian, Muslim, Jewish, or a None that’s all we have. Love is here and now. Bless all.
More on what a Trump crowd feels like please ... for some of us, just because of who we are or appear to be, it seems too dangerous an environment to enter into. But we need to be able understand or empathized with these folks, even if we can't possibly accept their premises. And have a good vacation!
I just finished your book: Jesus and John Wayne and now subscribed to your newsletter. Having recently visited Sioux Center , where I grew up , I’m especially interested in your work. I really appreciate your research and writing about religion, politics and the white patriarchy.
Enjoy the Black Hills and Wyoming. While you are here try to imagine it with 80% less tourists. That's what it was like when we moved here many years ago. Even then the saying was to come in May or September when only the "newly weds and nearly dead's" were here.
.I am in Grand Rapids visiting my sister. We were driving past the area close to where Trump is speaking today. Sadly, his followers from what I see seem antithetical to the god they claim to know. Ironically their ideas and gods ideas are the same. Add to this the cult-like admiration for Trump then you have a recipe for apostasy, a disaster. Everyone in America loses.
Your account of your experience waiting in line with your daughter at the Trump rally was eye-opening for me. It shows, for one thing, the power of our environment, which (as I think Montessori pointed out) is stronger than our wills. We moved this month from bright-blue Arlington, VA to a bright-red town in Tennessee. We're not sure how long we'll be here, but I'm encouraged by your reported outings to be as adventurous here as I started to be in Arlington.
Amen! You are speaking truth! We each need to do our part (after discerning what that might be.) My prayer this week has been "deliver us from evil."
As you mentioned it is not too late. Despite what’s in front of us we need not to lose a most precious gift , the gift of the moment. Whether Christian, Muslim, Jewish, or a None that’s all we have. Love is here and now. Bless all.
Thank you ,and enjoy your vacation
More on what a Trump crowd feels like please ... for some of us, just because of who we are or appear to be, it seems too dangerous an environment to enter into. But we need to be able understand or empathized with these folks, even if we can't possibly accept their premises. And have a good vacation!
Didn't know if you had heard about "white dudes for Harris"
https://jonathanbrownson.substack.com/p/spotify?r=gdp9j
I just finished your book: Jesus and John Wayne and now subscribed to your newsletter. Having recently visited Sioux Center , where I grew up , I’m especially interested in your work. I really appreciate your research and writing about religion, politics and the white patriarchy.
Enjoy the Black Hills and Wyoming. While you are here try to imagine it with 80% less tourists. That's what it was like when we moved here many years ago. Even then the saying was to come in May or September when only the "newly weds and nearly dead's" were here.
.I am in Grand Rapids visiting my sister. We were driving past the area close to where Trump is speaking today. Sadly, his followers from what I see seem antithetical to the god they claim to know. Ironically their ideas and gods ideas are the same. Add to this the cult-like admiration for Trump then you have a recipe for apostasy, a disaster. Everyone in America loses.