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7 Theses on Christians and Politics for Election Day

November 6th, 2018 | 16 min read

By Jake Meador

When it comes to discussing questions of politics, Christians can take several different approaches. A safe and sometimes reasonable strategy is to put a moratorium on such conversations in Bible studies, small groups, and other church functions for the simple reason that the discussion is likely to produce divisiveness or, in the absence of any real diversity within the group, to harden hostilities toward the out group. In some cases, this is a wise approach. But it also carries with it a danger of its own: All Christians will be discipled in our reflections on politics somehow. The question is where and how.

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Jake Meador

Jake Meador is the editor-in-chief of Mere Orthodoxy. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Commonweal, First Things, Books & Culture, National Review, Comment, Books & Culture, and Christianity Today. He is a contributing editor with Plough and a contributing writer at the Dispatch. He lives in his hometown of Lincoln, NE with his wife and four children.