11/8/2026
Nov 8, 2026
My Dear Friend & POTUS, DJT,
This Sunday morning I decided that rather than write you a letter it was best to just look at the news, drink my tea & let my thoughts wander. I somehow found my way to the Bible, specifically to Ephesians. What I found compelled me to ignore my original plan to take the day off and to write you instead.
Have you heard of the book of Ephesians? I hadn’t. I learned today that Paul spent a couple of years in Ephesus converting folks to Christianity. The city was a vortex for folks looking for spiritual sustenance. Many pilgrims came to worship at the Temple of Artemis, which, BTW is one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
Anthropic’s App tells me that “Artemis was widely invoked as protector of women in labor, & the Ephesian cult emphasized her as a nurturing, life-giving figure” so, my guess is that women with various fertility issues came there to seek her divine intervention. Since women’s status as mothers was so central to their identities back then, they were desperate for healthy babies & were susceptible to anyone who promised to help make that happen. So, they “sought amulets or spells against evil, curses, or bad luck,” & lots of vendors around the Temple of Artemis were willing to sell them such things.
So that leads me to the epiphany I just had which I felt I had to share with you. When Paul came to Ephesus sharing Jesus’ ideas about the redemption of truth & love, those vendors of amulets & spells felt guilty. They knew their magic was a con job & it was eating at them. When Paul told them about his own conversion & they saw how excited he was about it, they decided to change their ways, too.
Since you are inclined toward being like those vendors in Ephesus, I imagine that you feel duplicitous. While you have gotten used to that sensation, I imagine that from time to time, it eats at you, just at guilt troubled those con men near the Temple of Artemis.
Now that the voters have demonstrated they are no longer under the magical spell you cast on them, you can be like the vendors in Ephesus as described in Acts 19:19. The New King James Bible translates this verse as “Also, many of those who had practiced magic brought their books together & burned them in the sight of all. And they counted up the value of them, & it totaled fifty thousand pieces of silver.”
Like those vendors, you would be giving up some of the $$ you have been accumulating, but you would feel so liberated, it would be well worth it to come clean about your con job.
It’s time to follow the advice provided in Ephesians 4:25 to “put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another.”
God is Change!!!
BYBS,
RCA
