Adam Russell Taylor

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  • Jul 24, 2025
    I don’t believe that government regulation and intervention is the answer to every problem. I also have no problem acknowledging — and condemning — instances where...
  • Jun 19, 2025
    Even though Juneteenth is now a national holiday, I wonder how deeply its meaning has truly seeped into our civic consciousness, particularly at a time in which the uglier parts of...
  • Jun 12, 2025
    Last week we lost a theological giant: Walter Brueggemann passed away on June 5 at the age of 92. It would be impossible for me to overstate the profound impact that Brueggemann had...
  • May 23, 2025
    The more we hear about President Donald Trump’s so-called “big, beautiful bill”— his name for the massive budget reconciliation bill that would enshrine into...
  • May 19, 2025
    One of the more alarming aspects of the Trump administration is the way it seeks to instrumentalize Christianity — both as a weapon against its political opponents and to...
  • Mar 21, 2025
    This isn’t what I thought I’d be writing in 2025.  Four years ago, after the horror of Jan. 6, I believed our nation had reached a turning point. I thought we would...
  • Mar 14, 2025
    There is an emboldened rise of white Christian nationalism in this country that is supercharging support for the MAGA movement and our nation’s dangerous slide towards...
  • Jan 17, 2025
    Trump has so often appealed to many of our country’s worst demons — chief among them the very same triplets of racism, excessive materialism, and militarism that King...
  • Jan 10, 2025
    Since his death, Carter’s remarkable life and numerous accomplishments have been rightly celebrated, including the Camp David Accords, a historic nuclear weapons...