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Bishop Matthew Gunter: “Keeping our hearts supple toward neighbors, strangers, and enemies—supple toward those whose political choices baffle or offend us—is hard. But this is at the core of the Christian message and of Christian practice.”

The City of Man has always been a mixed body. It does not live by the order of the kingdom of God.

The Rev. Dominic Moore: “It seemed like an important thing to do, and we already have a lot of programming that supports the community.”

“Being in history” is literally an impossibility, or at least an oxymoron. Ordinary humans can only really be in the present.

The whole world is now witnessing major political shifts amid continued decline of confidence in institutions, massive migrations, and widening disparities of opportunity and resource between north and south and between the privileged few and the great majority in every nation.

Let us consider the main competing narratives that are already emerging.

We say we are free, but more of us feel alone, afraid, angry, despised, and powerless.

From 1960: "When one considers the popular vote totals, the wisdom of the voters was a less important factor than the luck of the distribution of the votes in various states."

Jesus is really on nobody’s “side.”

This year’s long presidential campaign has felt considerably longer because of the many endorsements, retracted endorsements, suspended endorsements, resurrected endorsements, and counter-endorsements.