Trump Lights Up the World, by Sheryl Collmer

By Sheryl Collmer, Crisis Magazine, Jan. 28, 2025

Sheryl Collmer is an independent consultant for several non-profit organizations. She holds a Master’s in Theological Studies from the University of Dallas, as well as an MBA. From her home in the diocese of Tyler, Texas, she studies homesteading, history, and the currents in the Church.

This world is not the same as it was two weeks ago. The sense of dread I’ve had for several years now is slowly receding. Now we need to happen in the Church what has happened in politics.

This world is not the same as it was two weeks ago. Technicolor has arrived in Oz. The sense of dread I’ve had for several years now is slowly receding. I can hardly wait to get out of bed in the morning (metaphorically, anyway).

Accustomed as we are to the glacial pace of anything institutional, we’re panting to keep up with Trump’s actions over the past week. I’m chronicling all these accomplishments, but I can’t keep up. I go to bed thinking the day is over and wake up to ten new things. Big things.

Fanning out orders like a Las Vegas blackjack dealer paid by the hand, he is showing us, right before our very eyes, that it never had to be any other way: that abandoned families need not have survived in tents in the dead of winter, four months after Helene.  …

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