From the LA Times: “There’s no way I’m going for Bush. That much I know,” said Moore, 46. He remains undecided between Democratic Sen. John F. Kerry of Massachusetts and a third-party candidate. … Others are like Joe Urcavich, pastor of the nondenominational evangelical Green Bay Community Church, where more than 2,000 people worship each…

Well, my civic duty has been fulfilled. I got up early this morning and made it to the polls by 7. Curiously, in my racially mixed neighborhood everyone at the polling place seemed to be a white middle-class professional or college student. The mood was monolithically pro-Kerry. If anyone there was voting for Bush, they…

Keith Burgess-Jackson offers his philosophy of voting and makes his case for Bush.

Jim Henley goes deeper into the foibles of the liberal hawks: Now a lot of the disenchanted liberal hawks I know complain less about brutality than about mismanagement. In this they take their lead from the Kerry campaign, which has focused its criticism on the Bush administration’s incompetence and “failure to win the peace.” Complain…

The “liberal hawks” who plumped for war with Iraq are now deserting the president in droves. Andrew Sullivan, Paul Bermam, et al. have endorsed Kerry rather than the man who acted on their vision. Is this just fair-weather hawkery or something worse? Reason’s Tim Cavanaugh says: These days, none of those luminaries can summon a…

I would say that vegetarianism is the diet of hope, an eschatological diet. It’s not morally obligatory, though it’s morally commendable, because it’s an impossible diet. No matter what we eat, we’re going to take away food from other animals. Even if we turn all of America into cropland we will inflict suffering on animals…

The Other Journal describes itself as “an intersection of theology and culture.” The current issue focuses on the election and features interviews with Stanley Hauerwas, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Walter Brueggemann and others.

Kerry voter Hugo Schwyzer puts tomorrow’s election in perspective: Both liberal and conservative Christians are too enamored of the power of the secular state to transform the hearts and minds and lives of its citizens and the citizens of the world. Yes, the moral character of the ruler matters. Yes, the policies of the state…

Andy at Among the Ruins has a post on the dilemma of voting, using Walker Percy’s novel The Moviegoer as his jumping-off point: I just finished re-reading Walker Percy’s novel, The Moviegoer. It’s been an extremely edifying read – especially since I was guided by an extremely competent literary critic this time. I now resonate…

In my Reformation Day post I said that one of my disagreements with Roman Catholicism was a preference for a decentralized ecclesiology (doctrine of the church) as opposed to a centralized, hierarchical one. Specifically I wrote: For most Protestants, the local congregation is sufficient in itself for the Church to be present. The universal church…