Blogging as a Christian in the Age of Trump

First and foremost, I am not a political commentator.

I blog as a spiritual practice. It helps me name what I am seeing in myself, in Scripture, and in the lives of the people around me. It’s a way of practicing attentiveness, prayer, and presence. However, the age we live in keeps pressing its way into the spiritual life. We can’t pretend we are blind or deaf.

Especially now.

To blog as a Christian in the age of Trump is to write while standing in tension. Not just political tension, but spiritual tension. Conversations feel sharper. Assumptions are quicker. People listen less and react more. Faith is often treated like a badge to wear or a weapon to wield rather than a way to be formed.

Scripture warns us about this kind of drift:

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind.
Romans 12:2 (ESV)

Discord and disagreement isn’t what trouble me most. Rather, it’s how quickly discipleship is replaced by calls of allegiance and how readily the way of Jesus gets folded into talking points. In our present age, fear masquerades as conviction and outrage substitutes for wisdom. This is not the way toward Christlikeness.

James names this tension clearly:

The anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.
James 1:20 (ESV)

Jesus never seemed particularly interested in making people more powerful. He didn’t come to save us politically. He was, however, deeply interested in making us more whole.

That matters to me as a writer.

When I sit down to blog, I’m not asking, How do I win an argument?
I’m asking, How do I remain faithful?
How do I speak truth without hardening my heart or pushing someone away from the Cross?
How do I name what is broken without turning brittleness into bitterness?
How do I refuse both silence and spectacle?

Paul’s counsel presses close here:

Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.
Colossians 4:6 (ESV)

Silence can be a form of cowardice as much as spectacle can be a form of pride.

Like it or not, the age of Trump has revealed things about our country, our churches, and ourselves. It has exposed fault lines that were already present but deeply hidden. It has shown how easily we trade our humility for the comfort of certainty, being set apart for pithy slogans, and love for loyalty.

Jesus warned us this would happen:

“For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”
Matthew 6:21 (ESV)

But revelation cuts both ways.

It also gives us an opportunity to return to slower words, deeper listening, and truer witness. It helps us remember that the Fruit of the Spirit is not outrage, dominance, or cultural victory, but something altogether quieter and stronger:

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
‭Galatians 5:22–23 (NIV)

These fruits are not partisan. In the truest sense, they shape how we live together.

So I keep writing.
Not to inflame.
Not to retreat.
But to stay awake.

The psalmist prayed:

Teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.
Psalm 90:12 (ESV)

I write to practice seeing God at work in the midst of confusion, Christ present in places we’d rather avoid, and the Spirit still forming people even when the noise is loud and the lines are drawn.

If this blog ever has a point, it’s not to tell you what to think but to invite you to consider who you are becoming and how you are living in light of what you claim to believe.

In this present age, and perhaps in every age, this may be the most faithful work I can do as a Christian.

It matters because you matter.

My Prayer

Dearest Lord Jesus,
You are not claimed by our parties or captured by our fear. You are Truth, clothed in humility and love.Guard our hearts from hardness and our words from harm. Give us courage without cruelty, conviction without contempt,
and faithfulness without fear. Teach us to speak when love requires it and to be silent when pride demands attention. Form us into people whose lives bear the quiet fruit of Your Spirit,
even in divided and noisy times. Please help us be faithful witnesses, not to our certainty, but to Your grace. In Your precious and holy name we do pray. Amen.

Until my next post…

Be salty, stay lit.

Rainer Bantau —The Devotional Guy™

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