Joel Perez prays during an "Evangelicals for Trump" campaign event on January 3, 2020, in Miami, Florida.

I recall the oath I took when I enlisted in the Army. There was nothing in those lines about defending a land or a people, only a Constitution. But now, Supreme Court orders are being ignored. Those who attempt to violently overturn an election are pardoned while others are deported and jailed without so much as a hearing.

As Kilmar Abrego Garcia is unjustly held in an El Salvadoran jail, his family responds by saying: “We continue to pray.”

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That prompts me to look to my own evangelical community and the unprecedented sway we have with the current presidential administration. But there are no calls for justice. Just ... crickets.

The evangelical mission is a singular one: to live as witness to the love of God and win souls to Christ. Not political campaigns. Not culture wars. As the late Pastor Tim Keller correctly........

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