It's Monday, November 3, 2025.

I'm Albert Mowler, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

Vice President J.D. Vance is big time in the headlines in recent days, and it's over a theological issue.

Now, one of the things many in the media have noted

is that the current vice president of the United States is the most theologically specific

and theologically outspoken person perhaps ever to have held that office. And right now,

given the secularity of American society, when an American vice president leans in on a theological issue, it gets a lot of

attention, especially when a vice president leans into the theological issue of the vice president's

choosing. In this case, it was really in response to a question that came up on the campus of the

University of Mississippi when the vice president was hosting what had been the Charlie

Kirk program. And in the context of all of this, a question came to him about his wife, who is a

Hindu, and how the vice president considered that reality. The vice president's response was,

quote, my Christian faith tells me the gospel is true and is good for human beings.

He said that his wife, quote, is not a Christian and has no plans to convert, but like many

people in an interfaith marriage or any interfaith relationship, I hope she may one day see things

as I do, end quote. Now, at first glance, I think to most christians that would appear to be the absolutely

normal if not normative response i think it's also something that would have been well understood

within the history of christianity and especially in the history of christianity in the united states

but the vice president stepped on a theological nerve, and you had to think he probably knew what he was doing.

When he responded to some of the criticism and declared it to be anti-Christian bigotry, he said,

quote, yes, Christians have beliefs, and yes, those beliefs have any consequences,

one of which is that we want to share them

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