James Talarico

And I forget that all the time.

We all forget it all the time.

But the more that I can hold onto that and remember that, especially in my political work, I think the more effective I am on bringing people over who may not agree with me on a lot of other issues, the more I'm able to serve

constituents and make their lives better, it is valuing each and every person and valuing their humanity.

And that really stems from those teachings that my granddad passed on to me and that

Jesus is still communicating to us 2,000 years later.

Well, and anyone who's read the New Testament...

quickly finds out that those are the neighbors we're specifically called to love.

It's our neighbors who are the most different from us.

Because it's really easy to love your neighbor who looks like you, who prays like you, who votes like you.

That's not a challenge.

The challenge is to love people who look differently, who pray differently, who vote differently.

And when you read Jesus's parables,

The hero is almost always someone who is on the outside, who's on the margins, who's different and despised.

And that's who we're called to love as ourselves.

And it's not easy, but I think if we figure out how to do that, we're gonna save this American experiment.

We're gonna rebuild our communities that have been torn apart by forces much bigger than us as individuals.

And we'll be able to get this country and this world back on track.

So I would define Christian nationalism as the worship of power in the name of Christ.

So I would define Christian nationalism as the worship of power in the name of Christ.