Michael Wear

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229 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Mar 2026 last heard 31 Mar

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civic leaders, elected officials, candidates approaching religious communities say, you know, you're serving the poor.

In your experience, you know, we're having a big debate right now about affordability.

Do you know who knows a lot about affordability?

The person leading outreach ministry at any local congregation in your state or your district.

we're having a big debate about artificial intelligence and what it means for the future of like what it means to be human.

Do you know who's thought a lot about what it means to be human?

Religious traditions that have built up over millennia, these ideas in ways that aren't just reactive to the moment.

And so I think both parties are,

could do a lot from just seeking, viewing religion as a constituency to actually viewing religion as a resource for leadership.

And religious voters, and frankly, all citizens, could do a lot to incentivize that kind of relationship, as opposed to being sort of easy cells for,

uh, for, for being appealed to through like sentiment and symbols, like those things to an extent.

And, you know, it suggests something about, um, uh, uh, a candidate or public official sort of openness to you, um, but,

But I think religious voters would do themselves a favor if they weren't so easily wooed by just sort of symbolic and rhetorical appeals.

It may not be.

It also will not...

conform to

the modes and ways of our politics.

And so sometimes politicians think, well, what do I have to say to someone who attends sort of that church?

I know the median voter in that church isn't going to vote for me.

That may be true.

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