I really appreciate the conversation, and I appreciated the honest answers from Pastor Christopher Jackson. However, as a pastor myself — in the Kansas City area — I realized that his answers for his congregations seemed much more uniform than how I or any of my pastor friends would answer for our congregations. Looking up his information, I discovered that he pastors two churches in the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod denomination. I consider this denomination to be very conservative as women are not allowed to be pastors. (http://www.lcms.org/faqs/lcmsviews) The denomination itself has a very strong pro-life stance as well. I just wanted to point that out because his answer about how the people in his churches didn’t like Hillary’s stance on abortion is exactly what I would expect from any LCMS church, regardless of where it’s located in the country. Many of us who pastor in mainline congregations (my own Disciples of Christ, or Methodist or ELCA or PCUSA or Episcopal, etc.) are leading congregations in the heartland with very divided opinions and political views. We have to figure out how to worship together, serve together and be church together in these very divisive times. Even my church — which welcomes all LGBT people — has members with different political views.