The Anti-Manichaeist

I recently followed a link to the Other Journal where I found that they had a series of interviews with many Christian thinkers on politics. The thinkers include:Tony Campolo, Amy Laura Hall, Pam Cochran, Dan Allender, Walter Wink, Stanley Grenz, Jean Bethke Elshtain, and Stanley Hauerwas.
I’m going to colorfully summarize the main […]

Bin Laden is a smart man. Like he wouldn’t know that his plagiarizations from Michael Moore’s movie would help Bush! And, more importantly, there’s plenty of good reasons to think he actually would prefer four more years of Bush-Cheney. Anonymous, author of Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on […]

The NAE, like Ron Sider, frame their agenda for discerning a biblically-balanced political lobbying strategy as resting on the foundation of the Biblical normative framework and factual understandings of the issues. Yet, there approach to the politics of homosexuality does not, persay, evidence a thorough factual understanding of the issue.
I critique the NAE on […]

Both writers were featured in yesterday’s Prism E-pistle. But McClaren’s interview shed more light on changes needed in the “evangelical” world to improve our habits of political deliberation.
Sider put himself between a rock and a hard place by implicitly claiming that on the basis of the Bible’s normative framework and a […]

Sider’s prolegomena to his letter in Prism E-pistle, “A CONSCIENCE DECISION: How faith informs the vote“, is that the Bible gives us Christians a normative framework for judging political decisions, but we need to use reason to deliberate on our political decisions. He omits the need, as it was pointed out by the NAE, […]

Marshall Allen writes a report on how many Fuller Professors have signed a document, along with Jim Wallis, that opposes Bush’s alleged convergence of God, church and nation and what they are calling his “Theology of War”.
They have written a statement of beliefs, called “Confessing Christ in a World of Violence”. It […]

Josh Marshall aptly points out that the BushAdmin is lying about the fact that the US let bin Laden get away at Tora Bora because we ‘outsourced’ the job to local warlords and militiaman. He acknowledges that it may have been a mistake that reflected our lack of experience in such warfare, but reiterates that […]

A senior at my alma-mater, now Bethel University, J. Christopher LaTondresse writes in the recent issue of Sojourners about how prevalent political group-think is at Bethel University. I experienced this myself when I first parked there(I now attend its seminary.) with my Christians for Kerry-Edwards bumper-sticker on my car. I found a slip […]

I am thankful for the wisdom of my sisters and brothers in Christ over in Britain, who have a Christians in Politics website offering advice that it would behoove for us in the US to take seriously.
PRINCIPLES FOR POLITICAL INVOLVEMENTThese principles are offered for political involvement:Be an insider. Be tactical. Be patient. Be […]

There is now online an important historical chapter on the Disputed Election of 1876 in the US. It suggests how yet another heavily disputed election could tear up even further the social fabric of our country. The answer is for people of both parties not to put their partisanship over their commitment to […]