The Wrong Glass Revisited... Again

Back in November 2008, just after President Obama was elected, I wrote a blog post about how Christians may be focusing on the wrong things when it comes to political leadership. I revised it and re-published it in 2021. I'm coming back around for a third time in light of the results of the 2026 mid-term election.We all know the old saying, right?!"Optimists see the glass as half full; pessimists see the glass as half empty."Some of you have spent the last two years celebrating evangelical access to the seat of power and the various policy decisions that came from the Trump administration. Others of us mourned the damage to our Christian witness as both policies and presidential behavior reflected a will to power rather than compassion and self-control. The complete lack of responsible leadership from a Republican majority in Congress was, to say the least, disheartening.But what if we're both looking at the wrong glass? What if we're all staring at politics & economic policies & the…

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