What happens Wednesday?

Each week, The World and Everything in It features a “Culture Friday” segment, in which Executive Producer Nick Eicher discusses the latest cultural news with John Stonestreet, president of the Chuck Colson Center for Christian Worldview. Here is a summary of this week’s conversation.

Earlier this week, John Stonestreet said he had never seen the nation or the church more divided over politics.

“For the most part, evangelicals are angrily—and I do mean angrily—split over whether to vote for one of the two most disliked candidates in history, to vote third party, or whether even to vote at all,” he said in a Breakpoint radio commentary. Stonestreet later told me, “Many of us in our lifetimes have never had to deal with such character issues that for many of us disqualify candidates from office.”

Stonestreet urged Christians to vote after weighing the key issues of marriage, life, and liberty.

“It’s going to be impossible to get some of these other issues right if we aren’t clear on what gives humans dignity,” he said. “These issues are core and fundamental issues.”

At the same time, Christians need to be prepared to stand together on the day after the election to continue working to influence the culture. Stonestreet noted believers—even within their own churches—have exchanged some very harsh words over the campaign.

“We’re going to need to take communion together. We’re going to need to join hands and look at the brokenness in our culture, look at the challenges of standing for truth in our culture, and we’re going to have to do it,” Stonestreet said. “And we’re not going to be able to do it by ourselves. We’re going to need to do it together.”

Listen to “Culture Friday” on the Nov. 4, 2016, edition of The World and Everything in It.