Following Tuesday’s presidential election, some are asking: Have Christians become too identified with a political party?

With the Republican and Democratic national conventions just weeks away, politics dominate the nation’s discourse. What coverage, if any, would you like to see in The Christian Chronicle?

How should Christians respond to the president’s support for same-sex marriage? Please be sure to include your full name and home congregation, city and state in case we decide to quote you. The Christian Chronicle blog welcomes and encourages feedback that promotes thoughtful and respectful discussion.

America’s newest congresswoman is a Church of Christ member and alumnus of Abilene Christian University in Texas. Rep. Janice Hahn, D-Calif., elected in July, becomes the third member of Churches of Christ — the first woman — in the U.S. House. Hahn is a member of the Redondo Beach Church of Christ. During the recent debate on the nation’s debt ceiling, she took time out on Sunday to drive to church in Arlington, Va. “And that was no easy feat,” her chief of staff, Jason Linde, told Grant Rampy, ACU’s director of public relations.

Emily Wood is a junior at Harding University in Searcy, Ark. She’s also an intern at the Center for American Progress in Washington, D.C. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports that Wood, 20, introduced former President Bill Clinton last week at the group’s seventh annual Campus Progress National Conference, a gathering of liberal student activists.

Jared Blankenship, a deacon and Bible class teacher at the Central Church of Christ in Hereford, Texas, has declared his candidacy for president of the United States. The 1993 graduate of Abilene Christian University in Texas outlines his reasons on his “Reclaiming America” website. “Many will ask why a former schoolteacher and unknown farmer from Texas would run for president,” he says on a YouTube video. “Perhaps the better question is, why are more Americans not standing in line to do so?”

Sarah Palin helped Faulkner University, which is associated with Churches of Christ, raise $1 million Thursday night. Though known for her folksy patriotic speeches, her disdain for mainstream media and Beltway politics, the nearly 2,500 people who attended a scholarship fundraiser featuring the former Alaska governor didn’t get to hear much about those things, the Montgomery Advertiser reported. Instead, Palin shared anecdotes about faith, its role in her life and how it shapes one into a person of value when she spoke at the Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Spa at the Convention Center on Thursday night.