From Kate Shellnutt: I recently looked back at the articles we ran around the last presidential election in 2020. I remember how we had planned out stories right up to election week. We knew it would be a close race and a late night. We didn’t know it would take four days to declare a winner—then months and years of debate over the results.
 
We met a few days ago to review our schedule for coverage of the 2024 election, which is just a few weeks away. Our plans are even more nebulous. We have to be flexible if, once again, we don’t hear final results on election night or if the vote is contested. Either way, we’ll still be following the story, sharing updates about what we know, and watching how evangelicals respond and engage in the process.
 
Things are different than they were in 2020. Many churches and evangelical organizations have tried to anticipate and proactively address political polarization—starting in their own ranks. It’s a trend that Harvest Prude has been following since the spring. In her piece up today, she writes about the leaders who are “done accepting the polarization in their pews and are calling on their fellow church members to engage with rather than avoid the issues that divide them.”