Pending recounts, run-offs, late ballots, law suits, and Supreme Court reviews, it looks pretty certain that our next president will be Joe Biden. And yet Republicans seem to have won just about everything else. A checked and balanced government is not a bad outcome for small government constitutionalists.
Here is a way forward for the Republicans: be the party of working families and support their interests against big government, big tech, and big business. So says Nathanael Blake, who believes a working-class identity could win over racial minorities, as opposed to the new progressive elitists.
Once again, the polls were spectacularly wrong in predicting the recent election. Perhaps the problem is not "shy" conservatives, but the large number of "declined to respond." The limits of survey instruments cast doubt on the social sciences more broadly.
Chad Bird offers us some much-needed perspective in his post "God’s Not Worried About the Election."
Over half of Americans (55%) believe that today, Election Day, will be the most stress-filled day of their lives. Let's help each other get through this. Join me here tonight and help me live-blog the election.
Both Biden and Trump supporters are saying that this is the most important election in history. And that America's very existence is at stake. Is that just overheated political rhetoric, or is there some truth to it? Readers are invited to make their case for how they will cast their ballots.
Reformation Day is about "re-forming" the Church; that is, to return to its "substantial form" or essence, namely, the Gospel, that Christ saves sinners. The medieval church had the Gospel, but it was buried under other preoccupations. Today, 52% of "Christians" and 41% of "evangelicals" believe they must be saved by good works rather than by Christ, suggesting that today's church also needs "re-forming."
Chris Gehrz writes about the 1920s bluesman Blind Willie Johnson, whose sang about the Spanish Flu in terms that apply in a startling way to our COVID-19 pandemic. He also gives the epidemic an apocalyptic significance, as a sign that "Jesus is coming soon."
"Theodicy" deals with the Problem of Evil, how to reconcile the reality of evil and suffering with the existence of a righteous, omnipotent God. But if there is no God, the Problem of Evil remains. Indeed, it intensifies, to the point of becoming unbearable. This is the challenge of "atheodicy."
Now that the Left has adopted identity politics, the mindset of intersectionality, and the rhetoric of grievance, conservatives have started doing it too.
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