It's Tuesday, August 13, 2024. I'm Albert Moeller and this is the briefing.

A daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

Well, no one's going to be able to say we lived in boring political times,

but these are also times that test the Christian conscience.

As we look at the 2024 presidential election, we understand there are big tests here for the Christian conscience.

As we look at elections at various levels all across the United States,

and we're talking not only about where you have candidates facing off, but you also have referenda,

you have citizen initiatives, the issue of abortion is on some statewide ballots.

We really are talking about a very, very contested political terrain.

And this is where we have to think through several issues in the Christian conscience.

So some people are asking openly, is it perhaps the best Christian option not to vote or to write in a candidate or not to vote for either the two major party candidates? That's a legitimate question and it's a question that does test the Christian conscience and how we think through Christian worldview issues.

And I'm going to get to that question in just a moment.

But another question is being raised.

Sometimes questions come up simply because of developments, for instance in the national conversation and that's what happened over the weekend.

And this particular twist in turn in the national conversation was at least catalyzed in part by an article by New York

Times columnist David French, the headline on the article How to Save Conservatism from itself.

The main thrust of his argument is that he is going to vote for the Harris

Wall's ticket, the Democratic ticket in the presidential race in order to perhaps save conservatism from itself.

And that means, of course, saving conservatism or saving the Republican Party for conservatism

through the defeat of Donald Trump.

That is the basic argument. And so there is no doubt and

anyone who's followed David French understands this and it is implicit in

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