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In this episode we continue to discuss the issue of politics and voting with Election Day only a week away here in the United States. In this episode we will begin by focusing on how Wesley taught we should engage in civil discourse especially with those that we disagree with on political issues. When then discuss Wesley’s position on slavery and the slave trade and how although he leaned “Tory” in his politics he was one of the most outspoken opponents of slavery in the 18th Century. We then conclude the episode discussing Wesley’s advice on voting. We encourage you to post this or tweet this on Election Day:
“October 6, 1774 I met those of our society who had votes in the ensuing election, and advised them 1. To vote, without fee or reward, for the person they judged most worthy 2. To speak no evil of the person they voted against, and 3. To take care their spirits were not sharpened against those that voted on the other side.”
― John Wesley, The Journal of John Wesley
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