Fulfill Your Civic Duty and Vote

Elections
John Stonestreet, Radio Host and President of the Colson Center for Christian Worldview.

In 2016, only about 61 percent of voting-age Americans cast a ballot. The percentage was similar for self-identifying Christians. In other words, while faith seems to make a difference in the voting decisions of American Christians who do vote, it doesn’t seem to make much of a difference in whether they vote at all.

But it should. The fact that Jesus Christ is Lord of all should make a difference in every aspect of life, including how live out our citizenship.

Too often Christians make one of two opposite mistakes. The first is what French theologian Jacques Ellul called “the political illusion,” or assuming that everything rests on political outcomes.

The other mistake is the political delusion, the idea that political engagement of any kind is pointlessly unnecessary or perhaps even implicates one in evil. Neither is not the case for American Christians today.

I will put it bluntly, for American Christians, voting is both a civic duty and a Christian responsibility. Make sure you fulfill your duty today.

Copyright 2020 by the Colson Center for Christian Worldview. Reprinted from BreakPoint.org with permission.

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State Lottery Spends Another $25K on Travel

Arkansas Lottery

Since the end of September, the Arkansas Lottery has spent approximately $25,000 on mileage reimbursements for employees.

All told, the Lottery Office has reimbursed its employees more than $55,000 for driving around the state on official business since July 1 of this year.

The numbers come from the State of Arkansas’ official transparency website.

State employees receive 42 cents for every mile they travel on state business in their personal vehicles; some employees at the Arkansas Lottery average hundreds of dollars every month in reimbursement for their mileage.

That means the Arkansas Lottery has paid its employees for more than 130,000 miles of travel since July 1, 2020.

As we have written many times, the Arkansas Lottery probably could save a lot of money by using state vehicles for travel instead of paying employees to drive their personal vehicles — or by finding ways to reduce travel in general.

Photo Credit: Airtuna08 at English Wikipedia [CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)]

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