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🌐 God’s Agent of the Autocratic State: Franklin Graham


January 31, 2026

Living & Loving in the Tension of Faith

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Though I’ve brokered many disappointments in the last ten years, none has been so acute as seeing roughly half my friends and extended family members exchanging the “compassionate conservatism” for which I used to vote for in favor of the unhinged vitriol and autocratic aspirations of the two Trump administrations. These evangelicals and I sat in the same pews for decades. We listened to the same sermons and read the same Bible. How could a large plurality of them, perhaps even a majority, make the sudden 180-degree turn necessary to transform them into raging avengers seeking retribution against roughly half the world’s population?...



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The Book of Psalms sits near the middle of most standard Christian Bibles. Psalms aren’t found in the Torah because these writings aren’t books of the Law but rather more artistic expressions. Faithful Jews integrate the Psalms into times of public worship and prayer, as do many Christian churches.

The Book of Psalms conveys itself as a collection of expressive poems and is one of the few books of the Hebrew Bible (also known as the Old Testament in Christian Bibles) noted to have multiple authors....


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