“Jesus and Politics”

* with apologies for the error in the year of the last election … it was 2016 and not 2018 *

I decided to write this reflection before the election in the United States so as to hopefully avoid a rant depending on the outcome. And in so doing, I pray that it is more of a spiritual and faith reflection on what is happening not just to the south of us in the U.S. but all around the world, and here in Canada too. In particular, whoever has been elected, I call us to do the only real thing we can do as a people of faith and that is to pray.

Politics were at the center of what Jesus encountered and lived with as part of his life and ministry. It was a political intervention that ultimately led to his death. How many times do we read in the gospels Jesus involved in some kind of confrontation with those in political leadership? Regularly. And how many of those times were initiated by Jesus? Few. Read More.

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