Josh Benner

Tag: Trump

  • Is the media making truth harder to know?

    With major news stories, does anyone else ever feel like it can be incredibly hard to even know what’s true?   All of the media outlets have agenda, the spin that comes from both parties, facts getting twisted, intellectual dishonesty. I believe that truth is inherently worth knowing and pursuing and I feel like they…

  • President Trump meets with Kim Jong-un: let’s see what happens

    Yesterday, President Trump met with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. Some are mocking this, others are celebrating it as a great political and diplomatic victory. At this point, it’s too early to tell of any longterm success in this meeting. Regardless of what Kim Jong-un has agreed to, the North Korean leadership has a history…

  • American pastor is a hostage of the Turkish government

    In 2016, there was a coup attempt against the Turkish government and their president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.  Factions of their military launched uprisings in several cities. The coup failed. The Turkish government believes that one of the intellectual leaders of the coup was Fethullah Gulen, a writer and former cleric who currently resides in Pennsylvania. Andrew…

  • The next president is not a savior

    The political division is incredible. The name calling. The condescension. The assumptions we make about the people who support the other candidate. It’s unfortunate.