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In a country where 93 percent of us say civility is a problem, a new story in the Wall Street Journal is welcomed news. We meet the Gates family, who are lifelong Republicans, and the Mitchells, who are lifelong Democrats. The two families are next-door neighbors in suburban Pittsburgh. The Gates home displays a Trump yard sign; the Mitchell home displays a Biden sign.

But next to each there is another sign which says, “WE [HEART] THEM” with an arrow pointing to the other family’s home and “One Nation” inside the heart drawing.

In this election, there are serious policy differences that will greatly alter the world we live in, the nation we give to our children. Three issues, however, are at a DEFCON 1 level of imminent danger for believers, for every freedom-loving American. We should consider these issues carefully before voting.

In a recent interview, Mike Sharrow, president and CEO of C12 Group, discussed the importance of Christian business leaders engaging in politics and voting and loving our neighbors through our civic involvement

During a recent prayer gathering on the National Mall, Terry Beatley, recalled a story Chuck Colson told in a BreakPoint commentary 25 years ago.

The story, of how God changed the heart of one of our nation’s most notorious abortionists.

President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden met last night at Belmont University in Nashville for the final presidential debate before the November 3 election. Once again, who won depends on your partisan perspective: conservative John Podhoretz says the president “had the debate of his life,” while CNN‘s Chris Cillizza writes that Joe Biden “managed to land the best lines of the night.”

How has our culture become so divisive? Let’s consider two surprising factors.

Franch lawmakers recently passed a bill setting up labor protections for child social media stars. While protecting kids is always laudable, it feels a bit strange calling this new law a “win.”

In a new documentary, Pope Francis called for the passage of laws that would legalize same-sex civil unions.

Former New York Times writer, Bari Weiss, recently published a piece warning of a “danger, this one from the left … one that has attained cultural dominance, capturing America’s elites and our most powerful institutions.”

“I am here to ring the alarm,” writes Weiss. “I’m here to say: Do not be shocked anymore … It’s time to accept reality, if we want to have any hope of fixing it.” Weiss describes a growing and institutionally enforced anti-Semitism, and proceeds to list a series of incidents that she says cannot be accurately understood as isolated, but instead as an essential and insidious component of the new liberalism, a “mixture of postmodernism, postcolonialism, identity politics, neo-Marxism, critical race theory, intersectionality, and the therapeutic mentality.”

As Maggie Maloney observes in Country Living, “No autumn is complete without the most sacred of traditions,” which she identifies as viewing the classic Peanuts movie. As it turns out, The Great Pumpkin is incredibly relevant this year, especially in regards to religion and politics.

A recent survey has found that nearly a third of self-described evangelicals do not believe that Jesus Christ is truly God.