Recommended Reading: Pastoring in the Trump Era and Pretty White Moms in Their Pretty White Houses

This Week's Recommended Reading on Substack: Kristin Du Mez, Anne Helen Petersen, Sara Petersen, Marisa Kabas, Michelangelo Signorile, Robert P. Jones, and Chris Geidner

The Week's Recommended Reading on Substack:

Kristin Du Mez

writes that former President Donald Trump’s “personal life doesn't matter, his ethics don't matter, his integrity doesn't matter. Those are all washed away with a few words: ‘God can use anyone.’ I see through the veil. I don't know why it's apparent to me, but it is. So I'm wanting to speak up about this because it has become a complete spiritual crisis. It has become idolatry. Idolatry is the very thing that is the most dangerous to our souls. No, nobody would outright claim to 'worship' this man.”

Pastoring in the Trump era

Anne Helen Petersen

interviews

Sara Petersen

: “If you are on social media AT ALL, and find yourself searching whatever platform for any sort of information AT ALL about, say, anti-nausea pregnancy teas or sleep training strategies or stretch mark cream or diaper bags that don’t scream “diaper bag,” you will find momfluencer culture impossible to avoid, and in most cases, you’ll also find it impossible to construct your own maternal identity without reckoning with the noise of that culture.”

Pretty White Moms in Their Pretty White Houses

Marisa Kabas

writes that “in light of Lauri Carleton’s murder last week in Lake Arrowhead, California, as a result of a bigot’s hatred of her business’ Pride flag, [Christa] Charter and other store owners have been forced to acknowledge the potential danger—and the fact that threats of violence are no longer hypothetical. But for those I spoke to, the theoretical risk doesn’t outweigh their commitment to flying the flag.”

After Lauri Carleton's murder, store owners reflect on their Pride flags

Michelangelo Signorile

writes that Ron DeSantis “seems to have done everything not to acknowledge racist hate and the targeting of Black people in this shooting. This is the mode of someone coddling white supremacists—someone who passed laws that in fact allowed this kind of hate to fester and lead to violence.”

DeSantis refuses to say 'Black' or 'white supremacist' in response to Florida shooting

Robert P. Jones

writes that “just as white authorities in Mississippi attempted to hastily bury Emmett Till’s body before Mamie’s courageous demand to ‘let the people see what they did to my boy,’ there are those today who want to hide the challenging parts of our past. At the White House signing ceremony establishing the new Till national monument, vice president Kamala Harris castigated this impulse, declaring, ‘Let us not be seduced into believing that somehow we will be better if we forget. We will be better if we remember. We will be stronger if we remember.’”

The Story of Emmett Till is the Story of America

Chris Geidner

writes that “this is not simply about student athletes. This is about a decision to use the arm of the state (of several states) to pull back existing rights — in some cases criminalizing people for doing things that have been legal for decades and in others putting people’s professional licenses in jeopardy if they continue to exercise those rights.”

Confronting a pair of dangerous arguments as trans people remain under attack

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