Benjamin J. Dueholm
Benjamin J. Dueholm is pastor of Messiah Lutheran Church in Wauconda, Illinois.
No president knew the literature and religion of America better—not even Lincoln.
Leonard Cohen's spiritual side had an erotic edge—and an eschatological one.
Understanding an election requires stories. Last night, our stories proved inadequate.
American civil religion is dead, to paraphrase Nietzsche. We have killed it.
When I parked the minivan in the church lot, it still sounded like the type of horror we have had no choice but to become stoic about: 20 dead in a bar, as many more wounded, a dead shooter and a thicket of questions. By the time I returned it had become something different.
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