Pastoral Work is Prophetic Work (or I don’t know how to do this)

Like most of America, last Tuesday night I sat in my living room and watched the election results roll in. Long before it was clear who was going to win, one thing was obvious: America is deeply divided. Not between inconsequential preferences like Coke or Pepsi (Pepsi), burgers or hotdogs (burgers, with bacon), but along the critical fault lines of rich and poor, white and non-white, educated and educated, young and old, white-collar and blue-collar, male and female, urban and rural. Pick y...