There’s no room for stewardship in any real sense. It’s cash in before it gets shut down.
> ...stiving for betterment while tolerating imperfection, as jesus taught...
And on a particular point, Jesus never taught that in those words. It might be a fair inference and application, but "how would Jesus vote" is a tricky argument to make. Especially considering that the U.S. has a representative democracy and not a direct democracy. Would Jesus vote for candidate A who favors a carbon tax and opposes ICE? Or candidate B who opposes late term abortion and wants better support for adoptive parents?
Well, that might be the options in the Democrat primary, but what about the Republican positions?
i grew up in both the evangelical and catholic traditions. there were some great people, but the hypocrisy of the many was unbearable.
this is the hypocrisy that gets me. christian stewardship should be at the forefront of environmentalism, culture wars be damned, not being dragged along gnawing and gnashing.
edit: hypocisy infects all of us, but christian hypocrisy really burns. rather than stiving for betterment while tolerating imperfection, as jesus taught, the general pretense is to cast a blind eye to all kinds of moral failings while acting as if everything is rosy. it's like sitting on a high horse covered in poop.