I remember a breakfast conversation with a member of Congress in Washington in 2017 about the relationship between faith and politics. He asked, with deep puzzlement in his eyes, how so many Christians could possibly justify accepting and even supporting so many fundamentally immoral policies, statements, and behaviors coming from the White House, or at least why they were being so silent about many things they never had been quiet about before.
It really wasn’t a partisan query. He just couldn’t understand, so he asked me respectfully and quite sincerely, “What about Jesus?”
This lawmaker, as a committed Christian himself, is also concerned about how too few of his colleagues, on both sides of the political aisle, are willing to seriously grapple with this same question, or even care to ask it at all.