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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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Αντώνης Λαμπρόπουλος

This article made me think of my father who at 78 still wouldn't leave the keys to the lab to my brother. It wasn't just work, it was that his life was there. Perhaps our politicians fear that without office they will not know who they are. Interesting the intellectual part Moore says.

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