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Donald Trump unleashed

Donald Trump unleashed

Martyn Whittock
Martyn Whittock
Date posted: 18 Feb 2025

Well, we are roughly a month into the Trump presidency and the character of the new White House is becoming very clear.

Although I have a track record of sounding the alarm regarding Donald J. Trump, in the New Year of 2025 I was trying to be quite balanced on a number of occasions. In one column I pondered whether we would get ‘Trump unleashed’ or ‘Trump lite’? That I even suggested the latter was a sign that I thought it might be possible: lots of aggressive noise but not the political meltdown that many (myself at times) feared. A few weeks in, I would like to amend that brave optimism on my part. It is ‘Trump unleashed.’

Trump 2.0: A concerned evangelical view

Trump 2.0: A concerned evangelical view

Martyn Whittock
Martyn Whittock
Date posted: 24 Jan 2025

The return of Donald Trump to the White House should be a matter of concern; not panic, but concern.

It should, at this point, be stated clearly that my contention is not based on an expectation that US electors (including evangelical Christians) should become Democrats. Nor that there is something inherently wrong with the historic Republican Party. My case is that the matter is rather simpler: there is something inherently wrong with Donald Trump and the MAGA (Make America Great Again) movement (which has, in effect, become the Republican Party). I would also argue that there is something significantly wrong with the US section of the international evangelical movement; and this is shown in its deep commitment to Trump and to MAGA.

Trump, Putin, Ukraine: what's going on?

Trump, Putin, Ukraine: what's going on?

Martyn Whittock
Martyn Whittock
Date posted: 19 Mar 2025

As Christians, we know that “Blessed are the peacemakers” (Matthew 5:9).

And yet we also know that what is required is more than the absence of conflict, as important as that is. For justice, wholeness and restoration are also values that are deeply embedded in scripture. The Greek-speaking writers of the New Testament used the Greek word eirene to translate Hebrew shalom and communicate its values, derived as they are from a root denoting ‘wholeness,’ ‘completeness.’ This reminds us that, as Christians, we need to look at the content of peace and what it brings. Which brings us to the recent conversation between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.

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