Pick Your Poison: What Does it Mean to Vote?

Alastair Roberts

Pick Your Poison: What Does it Mean to Vote?

October 29, 2020

Alastair Roberts

Alastair Roberts

Susannah Black, Steven Wedgeworth, and Miles Smith join me for a wide-ranging discussion of the subject of how Christians should regard voting and the ethical significance of casting a vote.

SOME RELEVANT AND REFERENCED ARTICLES:

'Policies, Persons, and Paths to Ruin', John Piper

https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/policies-persons-and-paths-to-ruin

'A Consequentialist Theory of Voting', Stephen Wolfe

https://mereorthodoxy.com/consequentialist-theory-voting

'Evangelicalism After Trump: Now is the time to escape from the GOP', Steven Wedgeworth

https://mereorthodoxy.com/evangelicalism-after-trump-now-is-the-time-to-escape-from-the-gop

'How Should A Christian Vote?', Steven Wedgeworth and Peter Escalante

https://calvinistinternational.com/2012/10/31/how_should_a_christian_vote

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