All posts about ‘politics’
Response to 'Strike the Empire Back' at Catapult
Thursday, February 19th, 2009
I thought this was a very insightful response by David Koyzis to catapult’s issue on Christians and empire (which itself was very insightful): When I read catapult’s recent issue on empire, my response was admittedly one of ambivalence. Ambivalence, because, on the one hand, there is no doubt that evil works its way into political, [...]
Tags: culture, empire, government, Koyzis, politics, sin, theology, world, z00002
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Being the Church During Election Week
Monday, November 3rd, 2008
Pardon the preacher on the Sundays before and after Election Day: she must neither piously distance herself from the public square nor serve a particular cause or party. Which leaves … what, exactly? John Witvliet starts to navigate these rocky waters in a recent column in Reformed Worship: As I approach these questions, I am [...]
Tags: News, politics
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Slate on how campaigns are like megachurches
Monday, November 3rd, 2008
From Slate: The model for the modern political campaign is the evangelical megachurch. This isn’t a partisan observation. Both George Bush in 2004 and Barack Obama adopted the basic organizing techniques that many ministers have been using since the 1970s to grow their churches to stupendous size. And why not? They work. continued…
Tags: News, politics
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Where was 'God' in the recent presidential debates?
Monday, October 20th, 2008
From Time.com: In the nearly sixteen thousand words uttered last [week]in the debate between John McCain and Barack Obama, one was noticeably absent: God. The deity got not a single mention, not even a perfunctory ‘God Knows,’ or ‘Good God,’ or ‘God Bless America’. In fact, in the three presidential debates, McCain and Obama have [...]
Tags: News, politics
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