However you may be feeling about the election results, God remains our refuge. His kingdom is greater, higher than any earthly kingdom. Now having concluded one set of difficult conversations leading up to the election, we embark on another set of difficult conversations with new opportunities to be the peacemakers that Jesus called blessed.

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Resources

• A Call to Prayer for President-Elect Trump and All Elected Leaders, NAE statement
• For the Health of the Nation
• RightNow Media + NAE video curriculum on For the Health of the Nation
• Following the God Who Transforms, NAE 10-day devotional
• How to Live Well With Enemies edition of the NAE magazine

This episode of Difficult Conversations opens with stories from pastors on what this election season has been like for them. It also features an in-depth conversation between Brent Leatherwood, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, an organization that helps Southern Baptist churches apply Christian principles to questions of public policy, and Kaitlyn Schiess, author of “The Ballot and the Bible” and co-host of The Holy Post podcast.

Though Kaitlyn and Brent often speak to different populations of Christians, they come to some surprising areas of agreement on political idolatry, political disengagement, and the biblical mandate for our participation in politics.

This episode also brings in important insights from leaders like Dr. Christina Edmondson and Agustín Quiles on how different lived experiences yield different decisions at the ballot box. Plus, Pastor Derwin Gray of Transformation Church shares his perspective on political idolatry and what we can do to be peacemakers in our country.

Show Notes: https://www.nae.org/ep5-christians-politics-brent-leatherwood-kaitlyn-schiess-difficult-conversations-podcast/

Resources

• For the Health of the Nation
• Full conversation with Brent Leatherwood and Kaitlyn Schiess on YouTube
• Full interview with Pastor Derwin Gray on YouTube
• How to Live Well With Enemies edition of the NAE magazine
• Spiritual Formation for Public Life, NAE podcast with Kaitlyn Schiess
• “The Bible and the Ballot” by Kaitlyn Schiess
• The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention

Daniel is now the national director of Churches of Welcome at World Relief, and previously served as the director of the Church Multiplication Institute at the Wheaton College Billy Graham Center. His story demonstrates how crossing boundaries in Jesus’ name can transform lives and bear fruit for generations to come.

Along with Host Walter Kim, Daniel explores our responsibility to welcome the most vulnerable, the role of immigrant and multiethnic churches in American Christianity, and how we should always keep our focus on the vision of the greater Church that is to come.

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Find Show Notes Here: NAE.org/b2-global-church-daniel-yang-difficult-conversations-podcast/

Resources

• Churches of Welcome, a World Relief initiative
• “Inalienable: How Marginalized Kingdom Voices Can Help Save the American Church” by Daniel Yang, Eric Costanzo and Matthew Soerens
• “The Multiethnic Church Movement Hasn’t Lived up to Its Promise” article by Korie Little Edwards
• A Multicultural Vision for the Church edition of the NAE magazine
• I Am Your Immigrant Neighbor video series