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Beyond Reaction, Toward Renewal

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By Michael Wear
| Substack
By Michael Wear American politics today is deeply, obviously reactive. This is the defining feature of our political dysfunction. Political disagreement is not unusual, in fact, it’s a necessary feature of politics. Deep, bitter antagonism between our political parties and people groups is not necessary, and it is a real problem today, but it is not what sets this moment apart. Political content is driving political purpose.
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Is This the Politics We Want?

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By Michael Wear
| The Dispatch Verified
President Donald Trump returned to the National Prayer Breakfast Thursday to use and abuse that forum as he has in the past. As he has with so many other institutions in our civic life, Trump has thrown the very viability of the prayer breakfast into question. I have attended the annual National Prayer Breakfast often over the past two decades. When I served in the White House, I helped the president prepare for the event.
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He Left the Pastorate. But He Hasn't Given up on Religion.

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By Michael Wear
| Christianity Today Verified
Ryan Burge's Vanishing Church shows the importance of faith for America. Ryan Burge "stumbled" into ministry, as he put it. He left the pastorate with his church in decline, but he has not yet given up on reviving religion in America. availableatamazon Burge is a sociologist who has carved out a nearly singular online profile as a prominent purveyor of charts and graphs about religious life in America.
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