Donald Trump Archives » Mike Frost https://mikefrost.net/tag/donald-trump/ AUTHOR | SPEAKER | MISSIOLOGIST | AGITATOR Fri, 26 Feb 2021 00:22:51 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://i0.wp.com/mikefrost.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/cropped-MF.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Donald Trump Archives » Mike Frost https://mikefrost.net/tag/donald-trump/ 32 32 116298986 The Alphabet of Grace: H is for Hero https://mikefrost.net/the-alphabet-of-grace-h-is-for-hero/ https://mikefrost.net/the-alphabet-of-grace-h-is-for-hero/#comments Fri, 23 Oct 2020 21:26:35 +0000 https://mikefrost.net/?p=30064 In a world saturated with superheroes you’d think we’d have a pretty good idea of what constitutes the heroic. But defining a hero isn’t as straightforward as you think. Donald Trump once dismissed Senator John McCain by saying, “He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.” And conservative columnist Miranda Devine recently declared the […]

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]]> https://mikefrost.net/the-alphabet-of-grace-h-is-for-hero/feed/ 4 30064 Overreactive Leadership has us running around like Chicken Little https://mikefrost.net/overreactive-leadership-has-us-running-around-like-chicken-little/ https://mikefrost.net/overreactive-leadership-has-us-running-around-like-chicken-little/#comments Tue, 18 Dec 2018 00:26:45 +0000 https://mikefrost.net/?p=28395 We all know President Donald J Trump doesn’t cope with criticism very well. After last weekend’s final episode of Saturday Night Live for 2018, featuring Alec Baldwin reprising his satirical impression of Trump, along with Robert De Niro as Robert Mueller, Ben Stiller as Michael Cohen and Matt Damon as Brett Kavanaugh, the president couldn’t […]

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]]> https://mikefrost.net/overreactive-leadership-has-us-running-around-like-chicken-little/feed/ 4 28395 Don’t call them toxic, call them “sociopathic baby men” https://mikefrost.net/dont-call-them-toxic-call-them-sociopathic-baby-men/ https://mikefrost.net/dont-call-them-toxic-call-them-sociopathic-baby-men/#comments Tue, 16 Oct 2018 21:29:49 +0000 https://mikefrost.net/?p=28262 Urban Dictionary: Baby Man A fully grown man that by all appearances looks normal. However, once you get to know him, you realize he’s a big baby trapped in a man’s body.   A couple of weeks ago I was flicking channels in a hotel room when I came upon Tucker Carlson from Fox News berating the idea of toxic […]

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]]> https://mikefrost.net/dont-call-them-toxic-call-them-sociopathic-baby-men/feed/ 1 28262 What would Newbigin have said if he’d been invited to that White House dinner? https://mikefrost.net/what-would-newbigin-have-said-if-hed-been-invited-to-that-white-house-dinner/ https://mikefrost.net/what-would-newbigin-have-said-if-hed-been-invited-to-that-white-house-dinner/#comments Mon, 03 Sep 2018 02:43:48 +0000 https://mikefrost.net/?p=28158 Last week, President Donald Trump hosted a White House reception for 100 Evangelical leaders, including such figures as Paula White, Franklin Graham, Jerry Falwell Jr., Darrell Scott, Robert Jeffress, Eric Metaxas, Ralph Reed, and Tony Perkins. The president was lavish in his praise for those leaders who had supported his presidency. And he was equally […]

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]]> https://mikefrost.net/what-would-newbigin-have-said-if-hed-been-invited-to-that-white-house-dinner/feed/ 23 28158 Exactly how xenophobic are Christians allowed to be? https://mikefrost.net/exactly-how-xenophobic-are-christians-allowed-to-be/ https://mikefrost.net/exactly-how-xenophobic-are-christians-allowed-to-be/#comments Thu, 16 Aug 2018 03:22:50 +0000 https://mikefrost.net/?p=28121 This week in the Australian parliament a newly minted senator called on the government to stop accepting any immigrants who do not reflect “the historic European Christian composition of Australian society and embrace our language, culture and values as a people.” In particular, he wanted to ban all Muslims from entering the country, a return to […]

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]]> https://mikefrost.net/exactly-how-xenophobic-are-christians-allowed-to-be/feed/ 13 28121 Franklin Graham is coming to town and he’s already having the opposite effect of his father https://mikefrost.net/franklin-graham-is-coming-to-town-and-hes-already-having-the-opposite-effect-of-his-father/ https://mikefrost.net/franklin-graham-is-coming-to-town-and-hes-already-having-the-opposite-effect-of-his-father/#comments Sat, 28 Jul 2018 08:27:07 +0000 https://mikefrost.net/?p=28063 It was recently announced that Franklin Graham, the son of the famous evangelist Billy Graham, will be touring Australia in 2019. He’s coming for the 60th anniversary of Billy Graham’s historic 1959 crusades in Melbourne, Sydney, Hobart, Launceston, Canberra, Adelaide, Perth and Brisbane, which attracted over 3 million Australians (and another 350,000 across the ditch […]

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]]> https://mikefrost.net/franklin-graham-is-coming-to-town-and-hes-already-having-the-opposite-effect-of-his-father/feed/ 40 28063 Let’s be freed from our obsession with the bad president https://mikefrost.net/lets-be-freed-from-our-obsession-with-the-bad-president/ https://mikefrost.net/lets-be-freed-from-our-obsession-with-the-bad-president/#comments Thu, 26 Jul 2018 01:45:25 +0000 https://mikefrost.net/?p=28057 Let’s get a little perspective, people. I’m just getting so tired of all the ire and high dudgeon. It’s exhausting. The anti-Trump outrage is at fever pitch at the moment and it’s making my ears ring. The fury and the intensity of the attacks on Donald Trump are becoming so frenzied I fear we’re all starting […]

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]]> https://mikefrost.net/lets-be-freed-from-our-obsession-with-the-bad-president/feed/ 9 28057 It is morally wrong to possess nuclear weapons and Christians should say so https://mikefrost.net/morally-wrong-possess-nuclear-weapons-christians-say/ https://mikefrost.net/morally-wrong-possess-nuclear-weapons-christians-say/#comments Thu, 10 Aug 2017 02:14:03 +0000 https://mikefrost.net/?p=27144 “The existence of nuclear weapons in the world is a grave threat to peace and we need to abolish them.” ~ Archbishop Joseph Takami of Nagasaki   As the world teeters yet again on the precipice of nuclear war, it has astounded me to hear that one Christian leader has granted God’s blessing to Donald […]

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]]> https://mikefrost.net/morally-wrong-possess-nuclear-weapons-christians-say/feed/ 1 27144 We don’t need another hero https://mikefrost.net/dont-need-another-hero/ https://mikefrost.net/dont-need-another-hero/#comments Mon, 22 May 2017 12:25:00 +0000 https://mikefrost.net/?p=26968 First up, this isn’t an anti-Trump post. It’s an anti-Marvel one. I want to escape the Marvel Cinematic Universe. And I’m not being ironic, they actually call it that. The Marvel Cinematic Universe is a creation of Marvel Studios, which has been churning out superhero films since 2007, racking up 15 so far, every one […]

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]]> https://mikefrost.net/dont-need-another-hero/feed/ 6 26968 Decision Making and the Will of the People https://mikefrost.net/decision-making-will-people/ https://mikefrost.net/decision-making-will-people/#comments Tue, 17 Jan 2017 20:10:59 +0000 https://mikefrost.net/?p=26568 This week, Donald J Trump will take the oath of office of the president of the United States. A lot of people can’t believe it’s actually happening. There have been “Not My President” rallies across the country. There’s been hopeful talk that Russian hacking scandals might forestall him taking office. Some Democrats are planning to boycott […]

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