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How to Save the Save Act

Gary Furr

From Heather Cox Richardson “The SAVE America Act Trump wants is pretty openly a voter suppression measure: voting by undocumented immigrants is already virtually nonexistent, and it is already illegal. And the Brookings Institution reported in 2025 that only about four cases of mail fraud occur per 10 million mail-in ballots, or 0.000043% of total mail ballots cast. But Republicans are using the idea of voter fraud to argue for measures that could toss more than 21 million Americans off the voter rolls.There is an especial irony in Trump attacking mail-in voting as fraudulent: Bill Barrow of the Associated Press … Continue reading How to Save the Save Act

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Our Muslim Girls

Gary Furr

My wife was the head resident of a girls dormitory when I was in Seminary at Campbell University in North Carolina. I would commute every day to Southeastern Baptist Seminary, 100 miles round trip, for the three years as I was getting my Master’s degree. It was a godsend, because we got a one bedroom apartment with a windowless storage room that we converted into a small bedroom for our daughter, and a few years later, our second daughter was born and shared it with her. I’m sorry we lived there, though. After living with a dorm full of undergraduate … Continue reading Our Muslim Girls

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Leave It Where They Founded It

Gary Furr

The Save Act is a law designed for a problem that doesn’t exist It will fail—I hope—and should. The attempt to move the Constitutional vesting of elections from the states to a federally controlled process is dangerous and unnecessary. I have been hearing accusations of voter fraud since I first voted in 1972, and I have lived in six states since then. It was usually in conversations after an election, or when someone was angry about the world changing. But the nearest thing I see to it is sports fans on social media after their team loses. It is passionate, … Continue reading Leave It Where They Founded It

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Love, Justice, and Perseverance

Gary Furr

I read an excellent post this morning from Rich Havard, who was in our congregation as a student and now works in community building and social change in his adult life. It is an excellent piece about the struggles of being a person who is intentional in his spiritual journey working in a real world where sometimes there is puzzlement or antipathy toward the notion. He asked, “What place do spirituality and love have in the quest for a just world?” He spurred me to think about it. It’s an excellent piece I commend for your thinking. In his book, … Continue reading Love, Justice, and Perseverance