Hello everyone, 

We’re going to jump right into it this week. Here are our highlights to help us seek to leave colonized faith for the Kingdom of God. 

Sy’s recommendations: 

• Earlier this week, Italy elected Giorgia Meloni, the country’s first fascist prime minister since Benito Mussolini. As this Atlantic article explains in helpful detail, Italy banned Mussolini’s party from politics following WWII. But Meloni grew up an activist in the MSI, the party that Mussolini’s old subordinates founded following the war. After the MSI dissolved, she started her own party, which took the old MSI emblem as its own. She decries enemies familiar to anyone watching the spread of far-right politics throughout the West, including BIPOC immigrants and LGBTQ people threatening the white, Christian way of life, as well as feminists who advocate abortion and thereby restrict the number of white children born. And yes, she has travelled to America, making stops to attend both CPAC and the National Prayer Breakfast. The article helps us see clearly the fruit of Christian political idolatry as an increasingly international group of the fearful, far-right faithful spread destructive ideologies throughout the world.