Bully versus pulpit

It may say as much about Donald Trump as it does about God that some of his fiercest critics these days are leaders of faith.

At Washington National Cathedral, which overlooks the city as America’s unofficial church, ‘Black Lives Matter’ nightly illuminates the neo-Gothic façade of the landmark, in stark contrast to a president who goes around wagging a bible like some kind of medicine show huckster, writes Lisa Van Dusen.Flickr photograph by Victoria Pickering

Opinion

BY LISA VAN DUSEN

June 17, 2020

If Donald Trump were not worried about the supernatural status of some of his most potent opposition these days, surely he wouldn’t have stood in front of St. John’s Church on Lafayette Square on June 1 wagging a bible like some kind of medicine show huckster. You don’t have to believe in a ...

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