Resources for a Season of Elections
“We are blessed as a nation to vote. As citizens of this country this is a right, an obligation, and a duty. Go vote. Vote your conscience. Your conscience informed by what it means to love your neighbor, to participate in the process of seeking the common good, to participate in the process of making this a better world. However you vote, go and vote. And do that as followers of Jesus.”
Election Day is Tuesday, November 5, 2024
Almighty God, to whom we must account for all our powers and privileges: Guide the people of the United States in the election of officials and representatives; that, by faithful administration and wise laws, the rights of all may be protected and our nation be enabled to fulfill your purposes; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Prayer for an Election, BCP, p. 822
Navigating an Election Season
This toolkit from the Diocese of New Jersey offers non-partisan resources for children and adults for learning more about our American democracy, and how our faith informs our political participation.
A Season of Prayer for an Election
This prayer guide from Forward Movement leads us through nine days of prayer (a novena) in the days leading up the election (October 29 - November 6, 2024).
Vote Faithfully: Election Engagement Toolkit
This handbook is part of ongoing ministry of engagement from the Episcopal Public Policy Network. It has a lot of specific action steps and resources for getting “souls to the polls.”
“This is the kind of fast day I’m after: to break the chains of injustice, get rid of exploitation in the workplace, free the oppressed, cancel debts...If you get rid of unfair practices, quit blaming victims, quit gossiping about other people’s sins, if you are generous with the hungry and start giving yourselves to the down-and-out, your lives will begin to glow in the darkness, your shadowed lives will be bathed in sunlight. I will always show you where to go. I’ll give you a full life in the emptiest of places--firm muscles, strong bones. You’ll be like a well-watered garden, a gurgling spring that never runs dry. You’ll use the old rubble of past lives to build anew, rebuild the foundations from out of your past. You’ll be known as those who can fix anything, restore old ruins, rebuild and renovate, make the community livable again.”
Isaiah 58:6, 9b-12 (MSG)