Normally, I take away very little from his columns, but today's was a homerun. It's a topic I've been mulling over and wondering about for probably two years.

If God is on the side of conservative Christians and conservative Christians are on the side of the Republican Party, shouldn't Republicans have done better in the recent election? It's difficult to keep a coalition together — Christian or not — if 12 percent of your base votes for Democrats.


But defeat offers conservative Christians a good opportunity to take stock. They should ask themselves whether their short list of "moral issues" and "family values" has any hope of being imposed on Washington, as culture continues to resist the approach many of them have taken. Could conservative Christians withstand another approach, one that reflects a more biblical strategy?
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