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Last night, President Donald Trump ended the war with Iran using a Sharpie. Critics on all sides have criticized the deal—which Trump signed during a celebration of his birthday at France’s Palace of Versailles—for failing to extract deeper concessions from Iran. But the question I’ve been asking myself has less to do with the terms of the agreement: What do we make of the end of a war that never should have started in the first place? My colleague Tyler Huckabee finds an answer in a surprising place: The book of Proverbs. Truthfully, reading Proverbs has always reminded me of cracking open a fortune cookie—pithy snippets that land somewhere between prediction and instruction. But despite some of Proverbs’ “cutesy frameworks,” the book offers wisdom about the predictable result of what Tyler calls “Trump’s preferred way of doing things.” Elsewhere this week: We’ve got two fresh stories for Pride Month, with Bryan Epps reflecting on what queer spaces like the Latex Ball do better than most churches and Ryan Duncan considering how a month rooted in “pride” can move us to treat our enemies with more humility; a new documentary about the the sanctuary movement refuses to lionize white saviors; and an interfaith choir is bringing a message of defiant joy that we all might need to hear this Juneteenth.
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