When I teach Christians Ethics, I tell my students that it is not a straight line from the Bible to nation state politics and policy. There are those who try to make it so—liberals on health care and conservatives on abortion—but that is to misinterpret the Scripture.
Instead what the Bible does is give believers a posture, that is a place to stand as we…
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