This week, former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan said he’s leaving the Republican Party because, in his words, their policies made it a daily struggle to love his neighbor.

That’s a sentence that made my eyebrows take the express elevator to my rapidly rising hairline. Not because it was partisan, but because it was old-fashioned. Like truth. Like conviction. Like someone remembering the recipe card for banana pudding without reaching for Pinterest.

“Love your neighbor” isn’t a bumper sticker we invented between Chick-fil-A and the church softball league. It’s ancient. Leviticus 19:18 says, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Then Jesus up and promotes it to the varsity level— pairs it with loving God and calls the combo the Greatest Commandment. The syllabus includes a lab: the G

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