Over the past week I have been posting quite a bit on Facebook about the candidates who will appear on your November 3, 2026 ballots in South Washington County, Minnesota. This journal entry will conclude my research and include the final sorting of candidates by their stance on education. The words of Dorothy Sayers have challenged me not to see SoWashCo Schools as a problem to be solved but as a “human situation subject to the law of human nature, whose evil is at all times rooted in its good, and whose good can only redeem, but not abolish, its evil.” Do you believe in the power of spiritual redemption? If so, then please, over the next 24 hours, join me in fasting prayer and supplication for the families, teachers, staff, students, administrators, and residents of this area to receive the saving grace of Jesus Christ. Pray that the LORD our God, in His mercy and grace, will cleanse our school district from all unrighteousness. Pray the Holy Spirit will convict us of our sinful nature (such as the purchasing of wicked school curriculum, the passing of wicked school policy, the election of wicked office holders, and the whoring after false idols) for it is all vanity. Pray we, as a district, come to the knowledge and understanding that our greatest NEED is not to be found in a global industrial workforce whose labor produces meaninglessness, but that our greatest NEED is to be found in Christ Jesus, who Himself is the Light and Life and Love of the world. If it be the will of our Father in heaven, pray the residents of South Washington County will elect candidates of moral upright character into human office this election season and turn the shadow of turning away from Death toward eternal Life. Thank you for praying with me in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.