Faith and the Formation of Civic Character

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Our civic life is not made up solely of laws and policy positions, votes and candidate preferences. Our civic life is more than the sum of a people’s stances on a set of issues. Instead, our civic life is shaped by the form of our conduct as much as by the aim of our conduct. Therefore, any comprehensive conception of what constitutes a “good” citizen must be informed by more than policy preferences and political…