US vote: High stakes & tribalism - what difference does Jesus make?

Russell Moore  |  World
Date posted:  4 Nov 2024
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US vote: High stakes & tribalism - what difference does Jesus make?

'Here we are, right at the end, and the election is a coin toss.' A friend said that to me just a few minutes ago, referring to the razor-thin polling margins between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.

A few thousand votes one way or the other in as few as three swing states could produce radically different alternatives for the future of the country.

I wonder, though, whether as American Christians we ought to think of Election Day as a coin toss in a different way as well. Even in a more secularised society, the words 'Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s' (Mark 12:17, ESV throughout) are still recognisable to most people. The account - from the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke - recounts Jesus’ response to the question of whether to pay taxes to the Roman emperor’s regime.

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