Jason Blakely's Lost in Ideology: Interpreting Modern Political Life helps us better make sense of this crazy political world in which we live, writes NCR columnist Michael Sean Winters.
By aligning itself with Trump, the pro-life cause finds itself in a long line of people and causes damaged irreparably by hitching their bandwagon to the former president, writes NCR columnist Michael Sean Winters.
We are called to define our Christian ethical vision by looking above the belt and at the needs of our brothers and sisters, as well as considering issues of bioethical significance, writes NCR columnist Michael Sean Winters.
The No Labels group suffered from magical thinking. They thought they could turn Americans' dissatisfaction with politics in general and with the 2024 candidates in particular into an opening for a third party.
Mainstream reporters who want to write about religion need to do better than traffic in ill-informed caricatures, says NCR columnist Michael Sean Winters.
We Christians may argue and disagree about certain scriptural passages. What unites us is this belief that the tomb was empty and, just so, that Jesus is himself the criterion by which we must judge ourselves.
"The Good Friday accounts remind us never to be too confident about our assessments of what God demands," writes NCR columnist Michael Sean Winters. "Good Friday turned all human presumptions upside down. It still does."
Former President Donald Trump's frightening remarks on March 25 after losing a court hearing must point us to action, says Michael Sean Winters: "This vindictive, unstable man ought not be invested with civil authority ever again."
