Welcome to a breakpoint, a daily look, and an ever-changing culture through the lens of

unchanging truth. For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street. Though all elections have

consequences, some more than others, they are still moments in time, and as such, they reflect more

than they determine. Their outcomes matter at times greatly. Still, those outcomes result from larger

trajectories. In other words, elections tend to be downstream from the rest of culture.

Now, the fact that this election will be so immediately consequential for so much and for so many,

for pre-born humans and the future of pro-life activism, for children and their

parents, for public safety, for education, for the integrity of the republic, for the direction

of the world's wars, to name but a few. Well, that's a serious thing to consider. And it reveals

the kind of nation we are and the kind of church that we've become. All elections are instructive, of course, like mirrors,

but this one's more like a big yellow you are here arrow. And so as we await, who will be the next

to move into the White House, we face the very real prospects of a disputed election, of rioting,

of international instability. It's one thing when a nation largely agrees on where it should be headed, but parties

disagree on how best to get there.

It's quite another for a people to not only lack a shared vision for the future, but also

shared definitions of essential concepts such as freedom and virtue and human dignity, family,

citizenship, marriage. In our country, the factions

are not only misaligned, they're antagonistic to one another. Christians are in a unique place

to offer a way forward. However, this will not happen if we fall captive to what Jacques

Lul called the political illusion. That's the idea that all problems are at root

political problems and therefore must have political solutions. Politics in our day has overtaken

far too much of our lives. Everything's been made political. Elections ought not be this

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