'Love your enemies' is a command, not a suggestion
Love for enemies is just another aspect of the “foolishness” of the Gospel. But the foolishness of God is stronger than man.
David Clay
Voices Contributor
GameStop saga, American Christians and populist uprisings
The truth is that American populism does not really represent the actual poor. The GameStop saga, for instance, is less “rich vs poor” and more “rich vs middle.”
Deaths of despair: White working class giving up on life
Over the last few years the term “deaths of despair” has entered the national vocabulary to describe how increasing numbers of less-educated middle-aged whites are giving up on life, either by literally committing suicide, trashing their livers with alcohol or, most notoriously, overdosing on opioids.
Why Working-Class Whites Don't Go to Church: An Air of Condescension
Several years ago I worked for a church in a predominantly working-class neighborhood in the south part of Louisville, Kentucky. Almost every Caucasian I met there readily, even proudly, identified as Catholic. Follow up questions revealed that the vast majority hardly ever attended mass.
