Mailbag

‘House church on a hill’

April 30 As a first-generation immigrant to the United States and a first-generation Chinese Christian, I found your honest and timely reporting refreshing and exciting. I knew about Early Rain church and pastor Wang Yi, but from WORLD I learned the whole story of the “house church on a hill.”

—Daixin Yin on Facebook

‘Strange sympathies’

April 30 Trump brings lots of personal baggage, but he also brings solutions to problems ignored for too long, like illegal immigration. Questioning Trump’s intelligence smacks of elitism, and calling him unsavory is to insult the intelligence of many of your readers.

—Igor Shpudejko / Goodyear, Ariz.

Voter frustration is understandable, but this perilous year is not the time to smash the system and start over. Those on the left—burdened going into 2016 with a failed presidency and a lack of rising political talent—must now be thrilled at their chances in November.

—Kathy Shaibani / Lynchburg, Va.

Great piece. It’s now very difficult to identify the true “lesser of two evils,” to choose between a candidate with terrible principles and a candidate with no principles. Some think the latter is “safer.” Both are menaces.

—Kevin Rouintree on wng.org

It is important that Hillary Clinton does not become president because several members of the Supreme Court may be replaced during the next eight years. Whether you like Trump or not, he is a patriot. Get on the “Trump train.”

—Doretta Erb / Valley Forge, Pa.

Andrée Seu Peterson asked very good questions, but given a choice between Trump and Clinton, how do I vote? I’ll walk away from the booth knowing I fulfilled my constitutional and Christian duty but feeling like I need a shower because of who I had to vote for.

—Julie Gerstner on wng.org

‘Values platform’

April 30 Why should any believer spend precious time and resources or vote for a candidate that explicitly advocates sinful behavior? I’ve been a GOP precinct leader for over 15 years; if the GOP abandons marriage or its pro-life position, it won’t receive my time or effort. In so many ways we seem, as a culture, simply committed to self-destruction.

—Tom Gross on wng.org

If gay marriage is a constitutional right because biracial marriages were also at one time unconstitutional, then why not polygamy or polyandry? If Ted Olson has a discriminatory nuptial line, he should explain why and where it is in the sand.

—David Rose / Canton, Mich.

We can complain about the GOP wavering all we like, but even some evangelical denominations are wavering on how to address homosexual marriage as public policy. Politicians pick their battles, and if the church won’t stand on the marriage issue, they won’t either.

—Daniel McPhearson on wng.org

‘The GOP divide’

April 30 This column was insightful yet tragic; some of us have never veered from our belief that conservatism is the only ideological way to address the “uns.” May we shower this nation with prayer, and hope to renew the GOP as a party for ideas, not strongmen.

—Nick Carow / River Falls, Wis.

Marvin Olasky suggests we show how “only approaches consistent with the Bible work.” Absolutely, but only people who believe the Bible will recognize the fact, and even believers seem to be ever searching for workable alternatives to God’s ways. We should support politicians we agree with, but we should not expect civil unity to last long or truly affect our national character.

—Neil Evans on wng.org

‘The final fall’

April 30 Thank you to Mindy Belz for continuing to reveal the atrocities of the genocide of Christians, Jews, and religious minorities in Iraq. And shame on our government for doing almost nothing to stop it. Her firsthand account reminds us of what happens when evil is unchecked.

—Sharon Dierberger / Stillwater, Minn.

‘Yappy hour for Phydeaux’

April 30 Reading this article about pampered pet dogs immediately after reading about genocide in “The final fall” made me feel sick. Thank you.

—John Torczynski / Albuquerque, N.M.

‘Jungle feast’

April 30 When Disney rethinks its policy of threatening state legislatures over sexual politics, then I might think about going to another Disney movie. In the meantime, I have no use in funding my own persecution.

—Sheryl Nelson on wng.org

Comments

I no longer wish to receive your magazine. You can’t get it through your heads that Donald Trump is, was, and always will be the best and only hope America has to get this country back on track.

—Kim Millican / Lakeside, Calif.

We drew your letter from our prayer basket and prayed for you at WORLD. We are thankful for a newsmagazine that doesn’t embrace the viewpoints of the world.

—Mel & Donna Koslowsky / Casper, Wyo.

Corrections

Land of Silence is a historical novel about ancient Israel (“Four recent Christian novels,” May 14, 2016).

Tom Hiddleston stars in the British miniseries The Night Manager (“The Night Manager,” May 14, 2016).

Merle Haggard died on April 6 (‘Blue-collar bard,’ May 14, 2016).