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January 24 2025

Kennedy Commentary: White Sheets and Red Hats

This column was originally published on Sheila Kennedy’s blog. By Sheila Kennedy January 24, 2025 There is no longer any way to pretend that the MAGA movement is not all about racism. The only difference between Trump and a Grand Dragon is that the white sheet has been exch “...”

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January 22 2025

Leppert Commentary: America has a new president, even if it doesn’t know what that means

By Michael Leppert The Indiana Citizen January 22, 2025 Hear ye! Hear ye, America! It’s Inauguration Week! But please don’t confuse it with infrastructure week. The swearing in of a convicted felon actually did happen on Monday. The striking components of Donald Trump’s sec “...”

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January 16 2025

Whitehead Commentary: Christian Nationalism and Demands for “Ethical” Political Leaders

This article was originally published on Andrew Whitehead’s Substack, American Idolatry. In 1998, at the height of the Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky scandal, James Dobson wrote an open letter to the American people. Dobson was the founder of Focus on the Family, one of “...”

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January 14 2025

Krull Commentary: Mike Braun’s odd moment of victory

This column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com. By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com January 13, 2025 If Indiana’s new governor, Mike Braun, wanted to make clear he was the most sane, balanced and truthful of the three men taking oaths of office on inauguration da “...”

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January 14 2025

Kennedy Commentary: Documentary spotlights ongoing religious war

This column was originally published by Sheila Kennedy on her blog, “A jaundiced look at the world we live in.” By Sheila Kennedy January 14, 2025 A few days ago, I participated in a panel discussion following a showing of “Bad Faith,” a documentary film about Chr “...”

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January 13 2025

Madison Commentary: One Hundred Years Ago Forerunners of Today’s Christian Nationalists Came to Power in Indiana

By James H. Madison special to The Indiana Citizen January 13, 2025 The inauguration of Gov. Mike Braun and Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith sparks thoughts of  the similar inauguration a hundred years ago, January 12, 1925, when  Edward Jackson and Harold Van Orman took their oaths. Th “...”

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January 13 2025

Hicks Commentary: The Three Risks of Christian Nationalism

By Michael J. Hicks special to The Indiana Citizen January 13, 2025 The most difficult issues for an economic columnist to write about are those where personal opinions are formed by moral considerations, not empirics. For example, no matter one’s perspective, abortion has a mo “...”

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January 06 2025

Kennedy Commentary: Rally scheduled to reaffirm commitment to e pluribus unum

  (Editor’s note: The Reclaim Rebuild Resist Rally from 10 a.m. to noon Monday, Jan. 20, has been moved indoors to the Broadway United Methodist Church, 609 E. 29th St., Indianapolis.) This column was originally published by Sheila Kennedy on her blog, “A jaundic “...”

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December 30 2024

Krull Commentary: Jimmy Carter, in all his humanity

This column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com December 30, 2024 Few presidents and former presidents have been more misunderstood than Jimmy Carter. During his years in the White House, he was caricatured as a naïve, moralizing “...”

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December 12 2024

Krull Commentary: Hill, Beckwith and ‘vindication’

This column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com by John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com December 11, 2024 If only Indiana Lt. Gov.-elect Micah Beckwith and former Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill held the same reverence for the truth that they do for the sound of th “...”