By October 2008, I had accumulated dozens of nagging questions and indecisions about the political candidates, causing me to write “Questions on Issues, Policy Besiege a Baffled, Undecided Independent” for the SpeakEasy column. It’s starting again, and I already have many of the same concerns: taxes, social justice, guns and abortion. Once again, I am baffled, undecided and don’t know what to do.

But the one thing I am not undecided about is being a Christian.