![]() ![]() You then come to understand that we’re looking at something that seemed to begin with TV news and then went to Hollywood and has now arrived in Washington DC. It appeared that something like a dam was breaking just a matter of weeks ago in terms of the revelations first against Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, but then we have to put this in a longer historical context and understand that even in terms of the immediate wave this goes back to the charges made against Fox News figures Bill O'Reilly and Roger Ailes and their subsequent firings or resignations. We’re also looking at some of the most urgent and sometimes most bizarre moral charges made against anyone in public leadership. We’re facing moral mayhem here, and it’s playing out at one of the most hyper-politicized moments in American history. And then, even as those two resignations were shocking enough came Friday’s even more bizarre resignation of yet another member of Congress, in this case Representative Trent Franks of Arizona. It was one of the strangest resignations, it was one of the strangest resignation speeches ever in the history the United States Senate. Then on Thursday came the resignation of Minnesota Senator Al Franken. First came the resignation of Representative John Conyers of Michigan, the longest-serving member of the House of Representatives in office for 52 years, who left after multiple accusations by women of sexual misbehavior. ![]() I speak of last week and this week, both weeks are certain, even as now we’re speaking just on Monday of this week, to be tumultuous and to be very significant.įirst, last week we saw the resignation of no less than three major congressional figures. Trying to figure all these things out as the world is in motion represents a rather significant challenge, and we’re looking at two of the most tumultuous weeks in modern political history. We are living in one of the most genuinely tumultuous times in American political history, but it's not just politics, we are looking at major tectonic shifts in terms of the political landscape, the historical landscape, the cultural landscape, and as Christians understand there are inescapably unavoidably moral issues front and center as well. ![]()
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