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It might help that our pews aren’t available to sit in and pray.

Are the police meant to protect people? Or to fight them?

“There’s a fire that cannot be extinguished except by justice.”

In the early evening on June 1, President Donald Trump stood before the historic St. John’s Episcopal Church in downtown Washington and held aloft a Bible for cameras.

The photo opportunity had an eerie quality: Trump said relatively little, positioned stoically in front of the boarded-up church, which had been damaged the day before in a fire during protests sparked by the death of George Floyd on May 25 in Minneapolis.

The church appeared to be completely abandoned.

It’s getting harder to believe in the vindication of history.