Christians, gerrymandering, and the legitimate uses of political power.

May 11th, 2026.

Introduction.

I don't want to seem ungrateful because I really have benefited much from the contributions of what may be called

banner of truth post-millanialism.

However, the emphasis with this strand of theology is almost entirely focused on the gigantic

ticker tape parade of evangelism, mission work, intense revivals, and more.

Scarcely a thought is given to how we might clean up after the parade, who would be

responsible for that task, and what our laws would look like after the revival.

Not only do I not want to seem ungrateful, neither do I want to give the impression that I am

against evangelism, mission work, intense revivals, or any other good stuff.

All such things are essential, the preconditions of the genuine work of reformation.

But we must also remember that there are also post-conditions of genuine Reformation.

At some point, the Christian magistrates will have to confront the hard task of governance.

They will have to start making real decisions. And please note, however massive the revival was,

those decisions will still require courage to make. Now, what might have nudged me to start

thinking down these grooves? A wee bit of background. As I write these words, Great Britain is in the aftermath of what might be called the Great Recoil election. All across the country, in local council elections, Labor found out what life in a slaughterhouse is like. But this is not your standard teeter-totter election, where seats that used to be held by Tories went back to the Tories again. No, there were two new interlopers, Reform and Restore. Reform, headed by Nigel Farage, is the Brit equivalent of the MAGA movement here, although they have the advantage over us, and that they've already had the word great in Great Britain's name. Restore, led by Rupert Lowe, was a split from Reform, and is a bit more hard line, and is a much younger

national party. But for our purposes here, in the local council elections just held,

Reform enjoyed what can only be called a massive blowout, and restore the startup won all ten

elections where they fielded candidates. This is a sea change. I don't believe there's any other

way to interpret it. For the moment, suffice it to say, regarding Great Britain, that there's life in the old girl yet. And here in the state, something similar has just been happening. Here, the battleground is that terrain of politics that we call gerrymandering. But what we really need is a verb that expresses the additional idea of un-jerrymandering. Under democratic rule is not unusual to find

congressional districts that look something like a mandelbrot set, with weird-looking tentacles,

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