Category: Letters from Pastor Andy

There’s a funny thing about end of the world predictions: they never seem to be wrong. Of course they’re never right either, so the people making those predictions often have to reinterpret them, or explain them differently, or revise. But preachers and self-appointed scholars trying to strike holy terror into our hearts by announcing the end times rarely if ever just shrug and admit they were mistaken.

I’m writing the day after the election, and so like many of us I’ve been thinking about the state of our country.

As I hope you’ve noticed, I make it a policy not to embrace any kind of political partisanship in preaching or worship. The church is not my personal political platform, nor should it be. At the same time, as Gandhi once wrote, the person who believes that religion and politics have nothing to do with one another does not understand religion or politics. I fervently hope that our votes and political involvement will be rooted in our faith. But while I always want people to take their faith into the voting booth, I don’t tell anyone how to vote.