Digital subscribers can listen to this article. Subscribe today for unlimited access to Texas Monthly. Already a subscriber? Log in. To be a politician is to compromise—James Talarico knows this better than anyone. When I profiled him last year, we spoke at length about the push and pull of his two vocations, those of a pastor in seemingly interminable training at Austin’s Presbyterian seminary and a state legislator running for U.S. Senate. Ultimately, he saw these dual callings as complimentary—politics can be a form of ministry, he argued—but that didn’t mean the two were never in conflict. “It’s a little overwhelming,” he told me of being seen as both a spiritual leader and a political leader. “It’s a lot of responsibility, a lot of pressure. The…
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