It is Lent. If we really want to draw closer to the Lord in this season, and if we really want to help our nation heal the wounds that afflict it, we might all consider giving up the jeremiad as a ...

Speaking about dangers and errors is no failure of love for one’s own community. Amid the meltdown within evangelical Christianity, some are warning against the dangers of the jeremiad. A few of these ...

In his convention speech, the former president sought to renew faith in the democratic project. By David W. Blight Mr. Blight is a professor of history at Yale and the author of “Frederick Douglass: ...

The earliest occurrence of what church historians call a jeremiad happened before there was a United States. In 1670, only 50 years after the establishment of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the ...

(RNS) — When he finally surrendered the floor of the U.S. Senate after 25 hours of blistering denunciations of the Trump administration, New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker had done more than shatter the ...

At the university, we used to remark, half lightheartedly, that this Jeremiah was trying to live up to his namesake, the seventh-century B.C. prophet. Though Jeremiah of old did not “curse” his people ...

Frederick Douglass's Antebellum jeremiad against slavery and racism -- The brief life of Douglass's "new nation" : from emancipation-reconstruction to returning declension, 1861-1895 -- The jeremiad ...

Rand Richards Cooper reads Amherst College’s “Common Language Guide” and argues that its purpose is not to create “a common and shared understanding of language…around identity, privilege, oppression ...

FORMER Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has rechristened himself a democrat yesterday, a democrat today and a democrat tomorrow — and forever. But that self-canonization, clearly to lift the badly ...