Year-Before-Election-Day Communion: November 5, 2023
![One person giving another person what looks like an "I voted" sticker, but the close-up of the sticker reads "Election Day Communion" instead](https://www.mnchurches.org/sites/default/files/blank-election-day-communion.jpg)
Since 2012 churches have been practicing communion on election day. In 2023 congregations have a unique opportunity: Sunday, November 5 is exactly one year before Election Day 2024. Given the disinformation and division the United States faced in 2020, the development of new AI technologies being used to activate our anger, the reduction of barriers to hate speech on social media, and the accelerated "great sort" in many communities brought on in the COVID era next year's elections could be more rancorous - and find followers of Jesus more divided - than ever.