{"id":1027,"date":"2017-01-06T09:41:03","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T16:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pastormathis.com\/?page_id=1027"},"modified":"2020-09-03T10:37:54","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T16:37:54","slug":"christian-voting","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pastormathis.com\/index.php\/christian-voting\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Voting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a pastor I was faced with cases of conscience during the election cycle of 2016. I was putting off the needed research, but I knew I had to face the knotty moral problem to help my congregants and friends.<\/p>\n<p>It turned into a Sunday school series (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sermonaudio.com\/search.asp?seriesOnly=true&amp;currSection=sermonstopic&amp;sourceid=denverprovidence&amp;keyword=How+Christians+Should+Vote&amp;keyworddesc=How+Christians+Should+Vote\">here<\/a>). Then\u00a0I compressed the series into a few essays below. Later I was interviewed by <a href=\"http:\/\/pastormathis.com\/index.php\/2016\/09\/25\/interview-with-janet-mefferd-how-christians-should-vote\/\">Janet Mefferd<\/a>. May my research help clarify the moral thinking of God&#8217;s people.<\/p>\n<p>(The articles have been updated to reflect the worsening conditions of 2020)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pastormathis.com\/index.php\/2016\/11\/01\/how-christians-should-vote-in-2016\/\">How Christians Should Vote<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pastormathis.com\/index.php\/2016\/11\/01\/christian-goals-in-the-election-of-2016\/\">Christian Goals in Voting<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pastormathis.com\/index.php\/2016\/11\/01\/how-important-is-the-election-of-2016\/\"><br \/>\nHow Important is the Election of 2016?<\/a>\u00a0 (This article is not updated since the importance of 2020 is blazingly clear to everyone)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pastormathis.com\/index.php\/2016\/10\/26\/some-thoughts-on-the-election-of-2016\/\"><br \/>\nSome Thoughts about the Election<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pastormathis.com\/index.php\/2016\/11\/07\/fear-and-loathing-during-the-election-of-2016\/\"><br \/>\nFear, Loathing and Voting<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a pastor I was faced with cases of conscience<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1027","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastormathis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastormathis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastormathis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastormathis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastormathis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1027"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pastormathis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1342,"href":"https:\/\/pastormathis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1027\/revisions\/1342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastormathis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}