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Commentary2023-06-21T12:57:26-04:00

What Happened at Morehouse

“We could not tell if you were for it or against it.”

That is the comment one man made to me after most others had left the conference room. I was there with my host, Rev. Dr. Lawrence Carter, dean of the chapel at Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel on the campus of Morehouse College.

I went there last week to be inducted into their Collegium of Scholars, and that was all nice and good and quite impressive. But later, as part of the day-long festivities, I helped lead (with the inimitable Rev. Dr. Bill Leonard, a long-time friend), a seminar on Christian Nationalism. And it was this seminar that had prompted this observation from the man who lingered behind.

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