A Benediction for Election Season – Kenneth Tanner

May you remember that all politics and all platforms and all borders and all leaders are temporary, are here one day and gone the next. All of these are passing away. May you resist the temptation to place ultimate trust in any person, policy, party, movement, or nation—even a beautiful idea that is embodied by a nation—because no nation-state is eternal. May you know that your kingdom is not of this world but of the world that is coming to this world. May you in the same moment grasp that engagement with the things of this world—not escape from its harsher, darker realities—is the sacrificial pattern of Jesus Christ. May you ...