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“This issue of FrontLine will try to help you think through some of the questions. David de Bruyn (who is a South African pastor) opens by addressing the question of whether pastors should address political issues. Michael Riley asks whether it is ever permissible to opt for the lesser of two evils when making political choices. These articles are meant to address the larger question of how Christians should participate in the political order.” - P&D

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Wed, 09/16/26

Don't have access to the articles. I would hope they are balanced, but before the previous election many engagements that I had with evangelical pastors was around these topics and using these to justify voting for Trump. I can't say that this is the approach these authors took, but the topic are eerily similar. I would like to see, but can't seem to find much, of evangelical authors tackling the more challenging issues. Such as the impact of the moral fabric of society when the leader lies pretty much about everything. No one seems to want to touch those subjects too much, and tends to sweep those under "the lesser of two evils" and than highlight abortion, immigration.... as key reasons to vote Republican.

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Thu, 09/17/26

...would be easier if there wasn't such stiff competition to be the greater evil! OK, there is something of a "trump card" (pun intended) where the left so stridently supports abortion, but even that is becoming more difficult to weigh when I consider Trump's reckless foreign policy. And then, as Dave notes, you've got the official (non-GAAP) national debt of $40 trillion and the GAAP-calculated national debt (including unfunded liabilities like Medicare and Socialist Insecurity) of well over $100 trillion....it was a nice ride while it lasted. Glad I know how to eat like a poor man....

Aspiring to be a stick in the mud.

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Thu, 09/17/26

There is a Democrat state representative (my district ) that I really respect. She communicates effectively with her constituents and is somewhat accessible. But like most, she always votes with her party leadership. Hence I don’t and won’t vote for her

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Fri, 09/18/26

Two points I hope they make somewhere along the way in some form:

  1. Because we are a republic, we all own shares in this government. In a way constrained by law, we are the government.
  2. Christian ethics is not utilitarian ethics. We might arrive at some of the same ethical conclusions, but the truly Christian way of getting to them is fundamentally different.

Views expressed are always my own and not my employer's, my church's, my family's, my neighbors', or my pets'. The house plants have authorized me to speak for them, however, and they always agree with me.

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