{"id":230,"date":"2026-10-14T16:02:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T16:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unbound.love\/index.php\/2026\/10\/14\/the-gospel-is-political-but-it-isnt-partisan\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T16:02:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T16:02:00","slug":"the-gospel-is-political-but-it-isnt-partisan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unbound.love\/index.php\/2026\/10\/14\/the-gospel-is-political-but-it-isnt-partisan\/","title":{"rendered":"The gospel is political. But it isn\u2019t partisan."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/podcasters.spotify.com\/pod\/show\/unboundlove\/embed\/episodes\/The-gospel-is-political--But-it-isnt-partisan-e3q0ua8\" height=\"180px\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"width:100%;height:180px\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>The gospel is political. But it isn\u2019t partisan.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So where\u2019s the line for pastors? Should clergy ever endorse a candidate\u2014or does our responsibility look different?<\/p>\n<p>In this episode of <strong>Unbound.Love<\/strong>, Natalie and I wrestle with the blurry line between pastor and private citizen, the power that comes with a pulpit, and why preaching <em>love your neighbor, welcome the stranger, feed the hungry, care for creation<\/em> will inevitably bump into politics.<\/p>\n<p>I know where I land: I won\u2019t tell you <strong>who<\/strong> to vote for. But I will tell you to vote\u2014and to carry the same measuring stick into the voting booth that Jesus gave us everywhere else:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Does this help me love God and love my neighbor?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pull up a chair. This one gets a little meandering\u2014and a little complicated.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The gospel is political. But it isn\u2019t partisan. So where\u2019s the line for pastors? Should clergy ever endorse a candidate\u2014or does our responsibility look different? In this episode of Unbound.Love, Natalie and I wrestle with the blurry line between pastor and private citizen, the power that comes with a pulpit, and why preaching love your neighbor, welcome the stranger, feed the hungry, care for creation will inevitably bump into politics. I know where I land: I won\u2019t tell you who to vote for. But I will tell you to vote\u2014and to carry the same measuring stick into the voting booth that Jesus gave us everywhere else: Does this help me love God and love my neighbor? Pull up a chair. This one gets a little meandering\u2014and a little complicated.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/unbound.love\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/17371743-1787173392160-4b83ef5fe92ea-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C2560&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdhG8T-3I","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unbound.love\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unbound.love\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unbound.love\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unbound.love\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unbound.love\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unbound.love\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unbound.love\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unbound.love\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unbound.love\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unbound.love\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}