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Bishop Michael Curry is using the attention he received while presiding over the Royal Wedding to lead a new anti-Trump protest. According to sources, Curry and other Chrisitan leaders will host a candlelight vigil to protest the “dangerous crisis of moral and political leadership at the highest levels of our government and in our churches” — crises that put “the soul of the nation and the integrity of faith” at stake. The event will kick off with a church service beforehand right in front of Lafayette Square, which is across the street from the White House. Who’s going?

(Published three years ago. Still important today). The crisis affecting the economy is a crisis of our civilisation. The values that we hold dear are the very same that got us to this point. The meltdown in the economy is a harsh metaphor of the meltdown of some of our value systems. A house is on fire; we see flames coming through the windows on the second floor and we think that that is where the fire is raging. In fact it is raging elsewhere. For decades poets and artists have been crying in the wilderness about the wasteland, the...

To use a trite, but thoroughly apropos phrase, "fear and loathing" abound in this nation, pursuant to financial markets that have careened to new lows not seen since 1997. The plummeting Dow Jones, closing at 8813 on July 10th, is clearly predicated upon lack of confidence in our financial institutions, with a growing list of notable corporations already implicated including Enron, Global Crossings, Tyco, WorldCom, Halliburton, and Xerox, among others. Qwest Communications International is now the latest company under criminal investigation for having been linked to fraudulent accounting schemes and irregularities that inflated corporate revenues. Some financial analysts are estimating...