This is the inversion election, a contest in which so many of our familiar mental categories have been turned upside down. This year, it’s the Republican presidential candidate who says the United States isn’t great anymore and the Democrat who insists it is. There is one candidate who is authentically religious, who has thought seriously about what the Scriptures teach, and whose own view of the world was changed radically by her engagement with faith. It’s hard enough for most of us to come to terms honestly with our own relationship to the Almighty. More importantly in this context, her journey in wrestling with the relationship between religious commitment and political action was remarkably similar to my own.

Source: Washington Post September 11, 2016 23:48 UTC