After This Election, How Do We Live With One Another?

It’d be nice to say we are less than 48 hours from the end of the nastiness of this election cycle, but to do so would be naive. For one, because the race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump looks to be so tight, we are likely still several days away from knowing who will occupy the Oval Office next—and how much turmoil we’ll have to go through to get to Inauguration Day.

But it’s also all but guaranteed that the polarization embedded in the marrow of certain factions will not end once votes are tallied. That’s just as true in some faith communities as it is in any other community: Questions abound about the right criteria for casting a vote, how our respective faiths inform those decisions, and how to regard fellow believers who decided differently than we did.