{"id":88235,"date":"2026-11-09T08:58:23","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T13:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=88235"},"modified":"2026-11-09T08:58:23","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T13:58:23","slug":"clergy-in-congress-will-triple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/clergy-in-congress-will-triple\/","title":{"rendered":"Clergy In Congress Will Triple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From The New York Times:<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-12m5bll evys1bk0\">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. \u201cMy faith teaches me that love is the strongest force in the universe,\u201d James Talarico, a Presbyterian seminarian in Texas, said in his Senate election victory speech \u2014 which included the word love 27 times. \u201cLove can heal what\u2019s broken in America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-12m5bll evys1bk0\">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 \u201clove your neighbor\u201d on election night.\u00a0A 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 \u2014 and offer an alternative to the Christian nationalism that has dominated Republican politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The New York Times: Democrats swept the midterms by promising to make America more affordable. But some winners also.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88236,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88235\/revisions\/88236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}