Professor Winnifred Sullivan wrote an essay for The Immanent Frame on President Trump's visit to St. John's Church. Challenging predictable outrage that has focused on what is seen to be an opportunistic afront to this historic and recently reliably liberal church, possible violations of the Constitution, as well as the presumed ignorance and hypocrisy of the president’s own religious commitments, Sullivan argues that haggling over the “goodness” or “realness” of the president’s religion in fact bolsters what she calls “the church-in-law” (the topic of her new book), a church-state corporation underwriting "a racist religious establishment” that spans political and theological allegiances and reinforces the problems many locate in the president’s actions.
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