The poll is as one would expect, given the general “popular religion” notions that the one who “talks the talk” is preferrable to one who “walks the walk”. Bush got 68% of the votes. Obviously, people look to piety over policy as more reflective of “morality”. To those of us who see the gospel as taking the words of Jesus Continue Reading
I agree with Mike when he says this article by Wallis is so good, it’s “un-excerptable”, but as Mike did, I tried as well, but ending up quoting something from nearly every paragraph. This is a great resource for serious contemporary Bible Study that is relevant and confronting. We SO NEED a Confessing Church. But then, again, that would “keep Continue Reading
JOhn DiIulio saw the problem in fairly short order, and resigned his post, after sticking it out for a time , thinking he may be able to achive something. Wallis expresses a similar disappointment after being initially encouraged by what seemed be to be an earnestly inquisitive president after he took office. High Stakes For Church and State, Sojourners Magazine/November Continue Reading
The Nov. 2004 Sojourners came in the mail today, with Bush and Kerry and the Cover. The three articles I will be reading first are already online (thank you Sojourners for knowing that these are important articles to have up so people can read them ASAP). Comments and further reaction postings sure to come. High Stakes For Church and State, Continue Reading
This post describes the via Mike James, via LewRockwell.com (entitled “Bush the Christian”) Bush the Christian by Christopher Manion John Henry Cardinal Newman put it as simply as anyone: “Being a great theologian doesn’t make you more holy. It only makes you more guilty when you sin.” Well, how could “such a good Christian” make such profound mistakes about a Continue Reading
Mike James posts a comment about my reporting the theft of my God is Not A Republican or Democrat Sign Tread lightly on the things of earth My friend Dale writes about not only his Kerry/Edwards yard signs being stolen, but his God is Not a Republican or a Democrat sign was taken, too. BTW, Mike, I saw that Silver Continue Reading
Suskind concludes with some reflections by Jim Wallis
I had never read this:
Am example of joining “faith-based” and Bush at the hip:
On the following :
This is what scares me to death:
I’m gonna be posting several observations on this one, it seems. I’m not even past the first screenful, and I’ve posted three times. “Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen”. This is indirectly referred to in Bruce Bartlett’s quote below.
Here the markleting department of the Bush administration is grossly out of touch with “market research”; the assum[ption that you don’t market something without knowing or understanding something of the perspective of your “audience”: The question vexing the foreign-policy establishment in Washington is how you market freedom. Is the establishment of a single, functioning democracy in the Middle East enough Continue Reading
From the NYT Mag article, and an excellent issue to raise for the Church and its rampant willingness to support the destructive and enmity-producing reaction of the US government to terrorism:
What SHOULD be a point for deep concern among Christians in America, is instead often a “Bush-ian” hard-headeness and insistence upoin righteousness and infallibility, and the rest of the world be damned if they disagree. Americans know best, and live on some privileged plane of higher ethical evolution. The fact of the matter is, the exact oppostite is true. Evangelicals Continue Reading