Dec. 20, Stephanie Martin, assistant professor of communication and public affairs at SMU Dallas, for a piece challenging Evangelical Christians to be more discerning , Today: http://bit.ly/2MfPdRr
When former Energy Secretary Rick Perry made headlines last month on Fox News for saying President Donald Trump is “the chosen one” who was “sent by God to do great things,” it wasn’t the first time someone argued that the commander in chief was commissioned on high.
Nor was it the last. Nikki Haley, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, told the Christian CBN News that Trump’s election made plain “that everything happens for a reason … I think God sometimes places people for lessons and sometimes places people for change.”
The Perry and Haley TV interviews exposed the ongoing tension in American political culture between those who believe that divine purpose underwrites everything that happens in politics and those who see human agency at work. . .