From The New York Times:
Democrats swept the midterms by promising to make America more affordable. But some winners also won with a surprisingly sentimental pitch: to make it more loving. A few religious Democrats insisted that a biblical commandment was the solution. “My faith teaches me that love is the strongest force in the universe,” James Talarico, a Presbyterian seminarian in Texas, said in his Senate election victory speech — which included the word love 27 times. “Love can heal what’s broken in America.”
Adam Hamilton, a megachurch pastor who won a Senate seat in Kansas, and Sarah Trone Garriott, a Lutheran minister who won an Iowa congressional seat, also cited biblical calls to “love your neighbor” on election night. A wave of religious Democrats will enter Congress next year, and the party will more than triple its number of clergy members in the chambers. They weave scripture into their stump speeches, read progressive policies into the Bible — and offer an alternative to the Christian nationalism that has dominated Republican politics.