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The Spiritual Reason Our Elderly Leaders Refuse to Give Up Power

July 15, 2026 · 1 min read

This piece was adapted from Russell Moore’s newsletter. Subscribe here. Mitch McConnell is still alive, but our knowing that was subject to a weekslong filibuster. At least for the moment, the aging Kentucky senator’s “proof of life” photo from his hospital bed is a kind of avatar for an era in which our elderly leaders are clinging to power Read more...

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