No matter who stands at the podium and is sworn in Jan. 20, 2021, they will face a country firmly divided in half, a country closing in on the one-year anniversary of a pandemic, which has so far claimed a quarter of a million lives in the U.S. alone.

As I scrolled through social media, I was heartened to see messages of hope and unity and resilience offered by leaders in the faith community.

Then I ran across this quote by Thomas Merton, and it struck an important chord with me: “Speak words of hope. Be human in this most inhumane of ages. Guard the image of man for it is the image of God.”

If we are created in God’s image, what does that mean and how would it apply in this post-election turmoil that roils our country?

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