By Art Smith. Posted Wednesday, Jan 28, 2009 at 9:14 pm Filed Under: Faith, Political Participation, society
Reprinted from The Iowa Family Policy Center Blog, with permission.
Hugh Hewitt recently interviewed theologian J.P. Moreland on the evangelical understanding (or lack there of) of being a responsible Christian citizen in our democratic republic.
Moreland, who has written extensively on Christian truth in the public square, had this to say:
“Being involved in politics is not unchristian. In fact, it’s a part of our calling as Christians. Why? Because we are supposed to do good to all people including the household of faith. And to do good to all people means establishing just laws and a just and a stable social order. And that’s the job of the state. It’s political. So the first thing a pastor should do and the Church should do is to enlist people like the dickens to be involved in the political process and vote. It is unconscionable that we have these rights, and that we have an obligation as disciples of Jesus to try to bring goodness and truth to society, that we don’t use all means available to promote just laws and a just and stable social order through the political process. And so voting is absolutely critical.”
In addition to
By Art Smith. Posted Saturday, Sep 13, 2008 at 9:25 pm Filed Under: 2008 Presidential Election, Abortion, Charles Gibson, John McCain, News Media, Republican Party, SCOTUS, Sarah Palin, Tim Russert
Sarah Palin had her first big interview (6 parts) this week since being selected as John McCain’s running mate. Paul F. Villareal made the video’s available at YouTube.
Of course, ABC played it for as much air time as they could… including repeating sections of the interview on 20/20 last night.
Let’s see, Thursday “World News”, Thursday [...]
By Art Smith. Posted Saturday, Jun 14, 2008 at 3:47 pm Filed Under: Rip, Tim Russert
In the midst of all the activity yesterday, I failed to acknowledge the passing of Tim Russert. He had a sudden heart attach at work Friday.
I have watched Tim over the years, and although I sometimes through he pursued issues that were not relevant, he was a man of integrity, he was always courteous [...]
By Art Smith. Posted Wednesday, Jun 4, 2008 at 10:31 pm Filed Under: 2008 Congressional Election, 2008 Presidential Election, Ann Coulter, Blogging, Gardening, Hillary Clinton, Iowa Politics, John McCain, Leonard Boswell, McGehee, Primaries, Weather
Just a few reflections on the day…
Politics:
News reports put Hillary ending her campaign on Friday or Saturday. As usual, I’ll believe it when I see it. It’s sad that Hillary has had such a hard time concluding her campain:
“We pledged to support her to the end,” said Representative Charles B. Rangel, a New York Democrat [...]
The New York Times had an interesting article today regarding the impact of Evangelical Christians in politics today, especially with regard to the new generation of Evangelicals who apparently are not as vigorously aligned with the Republican Party the way the older generation is.
I find this interesting partly because in the Republican conventions that I’ve [...]
John Hawkins at Right Wing News today proclaimed an about-face on his position regarding John McCain. Granted, Hawkins is not make a huge shift in position, since he has shared the same opinion of many of us that McCain is far from conservative and not what we consider the ideal candidate. But he [...]
Ah, it’s back to one of my favorite pastimes…blogging for the Conservative Reader. Since my last installment, several interesting things have happened:
Politics
For whatever reason, Senator Clinton refuses to concede the nomination. Either she and Bill cannot conceive of the fact that reasonable people would not choose them to be their standard-bearer, or somehow, some way, [...]
By Art Smith. Posted Saturday, Apr 26, 2008 at 10:57 pm Filed Under: Communication
Anyone that knows me knows how strongly I pay attention to the words we use and understand them by their defined meaning. In my opinion, it is antithetical to accept word usage alone as the means for understanding a word’s meaning, such as the (to me) crass usage of “insure” to mean “to make [...]
By Art Smith. Posted Thursday, Apr 17, 2008 at 10:50 pm Filed Under: Faith, Integrity
I was pleasantly surprised this morning to hear (on the New York Times Audio Digest) this story about the Pope’s speech to the US Bishops on Wednesday.
It was an excellent assessment of the lives we tend to live in America where we’ve gotten comfortable compartmentalizing our faiths or belief systems away from the realities of [...]
Someone this weekend (I can’t recall who) said that Obama lacks the experience to make a run for President at this point in his career, and perhaps he has stepped into too big a pile of doo-doo to ever make a successful run now.
I didn’t give that as much thought until I saw that four [...]
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