Faith and Politics

In many American churches you can guess how the pews vote before anyone says a word. Sometimes the sermon makes clear which side a faithful person must take. On both sides, the vote has quietly become a test of whether you belong. Jesus was once handed a political question designed to make him pick a side. Watch what he did.

You're not imagining it. In many churches the party line and the faith have fused so tightly that questioning one sounds like betraying the other. Many people walked away from church for exactly this reason. Yet the man those churches name was handed the most loaded political question of his day, and he refused to let either side own him.

Measured against the center