Chad Pecknold, associate professor, theology, was interviewed in a column in Angelus News about Trump’s first 100 days and Pecknold’s Twitter course on Augustine’s City of God.
It’s hard not to be uneasy about politics these days. Even among those most sober and prayerful and encouraging toward a settling-in administration wonder if this current White House is one uniquely in over its head, at best. A quick survey on my social media networks confirms that even reactions from those who support President Donald J. Trump wholeheartedly can sometimes only further expose the problem of our day: a tendency to look for a savior in the political.
One-hundred days into the Trump White House, our political health would seem to be the same as it ever was lately: in need of a healing remedy.
Chad Pecknold, associate professor of systematic theology at The Catholic University of America, has been doing his part to try to provide just that. He has spent every Thursday during these 100 days leading a two-hour discussion on Twitter about St. Augustine’s “City of God.” The informal seminar began for many, myself included, as a little bit of an escape, or, at the very least “changing the channel on a very unsettling political show” as Pecknold puts it. “It was a chance to get distance and perspective on where we were in the larger scope of history in which 100 days seems like a laughable measure.”
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