Welcome to the White House 2026

The Resolute Desk has been replaced by a Golden Throne, kneeling pad to match at the base.

The former Ukraine is now Pukraine (Pookraine to locals). The Kremlin continues its march to Europe and elsewhere.

U.S. local police and sheriff's departments have been replaced by municipal militias.

Corporate values have collapsed, but the NRA is booming — so to speak.

Sales of Barbie Dolls are down.     

Vladimir Putin arrives for his quarterly visit via DOGE Airways, presidential gift in hand ... a small gold box containing a lock of Navalny's hair. 

Janet Joiner
Ferrysburg

The Robin Hood GOP tax bill

The Republican Party in the House of Representatives just passed a bill, over 1,000 pages long (how many do you think actually read it?), that literally takes money from the poor and gives it to the rich — Robin Hood in reverse!   

The tax cuts primarily favor the top 1%, and in an attempt to offset these tax cuts, money will be taken from the poor and the needy. Health care and food programs will be slashed. This is American greed, pure and simple. 

Moreover, if this tax bill reaches the president's desk without drastic changes in the Senate, our deficits will continue and trillions will be added to the national debt.

This Trump Administration is the most corrupt in American history. Donald Trump is enriching himself and his family through crypto schemes and selling access to the president, among other things. With a weak Democratic Party and a cult-worshipping Republican Party, I am left wondering whether a recompense will ever come, a day of judgment on greed and corruption. 

However, one thing I do know for sure — and I hope I live long enough to read the books that will be written about what we are witnessing — Donald Trump and his family and his administration will carved up by historians like a stuffed turkey and exposed for their greed and corruption and fiscal irresponsibility.   

Henry Idema
Grand Haven

Join us in discussing the Nicene Creed

Christians Uniting in Song and Prayer invites everyone to a forum on the history and significance of the Nicene Creed, which is a statement of core beliefs prayed by Christians around the world.

Our forum will be at 14th Street Christian Reformed Church, 14 W. 14th St., Holland, at 7 p.m. on Trinity Sunday, June 15. This event commemorates the 1,700th anniversary of the 325 Council of Nicaea, which along with the 381 Council of Constantinople, gave us the Nicene Creed. 

CUSP selected June 15 for our forum because on this date, Christians will celebrate Trinity Sunday, a day when we ponder the mystery that God is both one God and yet three distinct persons. One might be tempted to reduce this mystery to an interesting math puzzle. But it actually has profound implications for how we understand God and our relationship to God, each other, and all of God’s creation.  Moreover, the story of how Christians’ belief in the Trinity came to be articulated in the Nicene Creed is both fascinating and instructive.

Our forum will feature a brief overview of the circumstances that led to the Council of Nicaea and the theological controversies it sought to resolve.  We will also discuss what the common confession of the Nicene Creed means for our pursuit of Christian unity.

Our speakers will be Dr. Tim Howerzyl, a Protestant at Kuyper College, and Dr. Jared Ortiz, a Catholic at Hope College. There will be ample time for discussion and refreshments afterward. We hope you join us.

Mary Johnson
Chair of CUSP

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