{"id":8724,"date":"2019-11-04T05:00:42","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T10:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markdriscoll\/?p=8724"},"modified":"2019-10-09T19:47:06","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T23:47:06","slug":"lets-talk-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markdriscoll\/2019\/11\/lets-talk-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s Talk Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><div class=\"su-vimeo su-u-responsive-media-yes\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/296665229?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;color=ffffff&amp;autoplay=0&amp;dnt=0&amp;muted=0&amp;texttrack=\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen title=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p><p>Let\u2019s talk politics without a prison riot breaking out\u2026<br class=\"\"><br class=\"\">It doesn\u2019t matter if you are on the political right, left, or confused group in the middle- politically\u00a0we are in a polarized time.<br class=\"\"><br class=\"\">This week, I would like to share with you a Christian perspective on politics that is God\u2019s option to the dumpster fire that is the\u00a0culture wars. 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