Politics & Poetry

by David Alan Hjelle

An Introduction

I’ve been struggling with how to process the world around me lately. I’m a Christian, a Jesus-follower, first and foremost—and yet I find a frustrating amount of disagreement about the world around me, even with fellow believers.

I often find I don’t understand.

I’ve been tempted to write lately. For a moment, I thought it might be a way of helping others or even having some influence. In such an opinion-saturated world, that’s pretty ridiculous. I came to realize that perhaps writing would be just for me: how do I know what I am thinking unless I can put it into coherent prose? I don’t mind sharing—perhaps I will, perhaps I won’t—but I’m hoping that it will be a sort of processing that helps me live my life faithfully as a servant to my King Jesus and as someone who wants to do the next right thing.

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