From The Bulletin podcast producer Leslie Thompson: Listening to the interviews in our new miniseries Stop. Look. Listen. one after the next, I was struck by the impossible task we are given in our time on earth: to be aware of the labor pains as creation stumbles through its broken existence and to imagine how to follow God’s ways. Especially in the election season, it seems impossible. We hold firm to convictions deeply rooted in theology, unable to see how any other choices are rooted in the truth of God’s Word. How do we proceed? 

Our guests exemplify a greater mysterious truth, that in the midst of the “one way” of the gospel, there are yet many ways to realize the kingdom of heaven on earth. Because, wonder of wonders, God works regardless of the principalities to write the story of redeeming that which, at times, seems too far gone. We can vote differently and still find ourselves in the full, gracious, loving view of the throne of God. And this brings me comfort when almost nothing else will.