Quotes from Ronald J. Sider

You know who's one of the great beauties of the world—according to everybody—and I helped create her? Ivanka. My daughter, Ivanka. She's six feet tall, she's got the best body." (Ivanka was twenty-one at the time.)

Yeah, she's really something, and what a beauty, that one. If I weren't happily married and, ya know, her father . . ." (Referring again to his daughter, Ivanka.)

According to Pulitzer Prize-winning truth-checkers Politifact, a firm which compares each candidate's statements to evidence, Trump's statements were verifiably false 76 percent of the time when he ran for office in 2016.

Referring to his then-infant daughter, Tiffany: "Well, I think that she's got a lot of Marla," Trump said. "She's a really beautiful baby, and she's got Marla's legs." Trump then proceeded to motion to his chest and added, "We don't know whether she's got this part yet, but time will tell.

It is a sure sign of a church's internal decay when the sum and substance of its religious activity becomes entwined with political partisanship, especially when loyalty to a political figure is equated with loyalty to God.

Though we fall short, however, we do have a job to do. With respect to government, the Christian's job is to seek justice as described by Old Testament prophets and to care for the sick, the weak and the poor as described by Jesus throughout the early New Testament.

While Trump has stated he has no sins he is aware of that require repentance, he will not escape judgment day.

I don't think it's going to come to that, especially with the fact that we're going down, not up. We're going very substantially down, not up.

We fail to recall that the one gift we have to offer the nation is not a partisan vote, but a consistent moral voice grounded in the perfect love and perfect righteousness of God.

To date, Donald Trump has been accused of rape (including by his first wife, Ivana, who later dropped the charges), sexual assault, and sexual harassment by more than two dozen women.

A regenerated individual, in obedience to the teachings of Jesus, bore responsibility for the improvement of society and especially the interests of those most vulnerable.

I abhor a piety which has no humanity with it and in it," he added. "God loves both piety and humanity."165

I better use some Tic Tacs just in case I start kissing her. You know I'm automatically attracted to beautiful—I just start kissing them. It's like a magnet. Just kiss. I don't even wait. And when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab 'em by the pussy. You can do anything.

To be fair, though, here is one of Trump's few but fairly specific plans for helping the disadvantaged: "Teenage mothers [shouldn't] get public assistance unless they jump through some pretty small hoops. Making them live in group homes makes sense.

Regardless of whether or not you support Trump, it is my sincerest desire to implore Christians to speak up about the dangers of objectifying women, even if the perpetrator is the president of the United States.

While every president lies, not every president is a pathological liar. Donald Trump is a pathological liar.

Is it not confusing to young men to be taught in their churches and homes to honor, protect, and cherish women, but hear a deafening silence in response to Trump's low view of women by many of those same chivalry-promoting Christians?

Trump's former lawyer, John Dowd, said to him "You can't tell the truth. You just make things up.

Just as we should stand against the objectification of women, we too, should stand against dangerous stereotypes that liken men to animals on the prowl, ruled primarily by raging hormones and uncontrollable impulses. This is an insult to principled men who exhibit great respect for women and value them for their personhood, rather than their collective parts.

You cannot stand for moral decency and express outrage over the objectification of women if you are willing to give Trump a free pass.

No one will take Christianity seriously if we shout about the moral injustices of past presidents, but are struck dumb when it comes to the moral injustices of the current one.

Evangelicals considered abortion a "Catholic issue" in the 1970s; the Southern Baptist Convention called for the legalization of abortion in 1971, and evangelical leaders, including W. A. Criswell of First Baptist Church in Dallas, applauded the Roe v. Wade decision of 1973.

For the first time, on March 17, President Trump declared the situation a pandemic—and promptly claimed he had known that all along.

Look, alternative facts aren't facts, they're falsehoods