Tag: politics
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A New Kind of Evangelical Presence
From the Acton PowerBlog: A New Kind of Evangelical Presence John Armstrong. This is a lengthy post about the state of Evangelicals and politics. From what I see and read, I'll just say that what he describes here "feels" right to me. Great post! Pundits and pollsters are sorting out the results of Tuesday’s elections…
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The Pen, the Sword and the Pontiff
From TCS Daily: The Pen, the Sword and the Pontiff by Lee Harris. Great article. [Harris quoting Madeleine Bunting] "An elderly Catholic nun has already been killed in Somalia, perhaps in retaliation for the pope's remarks; churches have been attacked in the West Bank. How is this papal stupidity going to play out in countries…
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“Engage Economy to Voice Your Values”: An Observation about the Emergent Conversation
Economy to Voice Your Values is a great opinion piece by Father Robert Sirico in The Detroit News over the weekend. There has been a heightened demand for participation in church worship. We also hear about the need for participatory democracy, so people play a role in forming policy. Since economics concerns everything we do,…
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Nearer, My God, to the G.O.P.
Nearer, My God, to the G.O.P. is a piece by Joseph Loconte in the New York Times. I like this guy's perspective. A couple of key quotes: "'We affirm God's vision of a good society offered to us by the prophet Isaiah,' he [Jim Wallis] writes. Yet Isaiah, an agent of divine judgment living in…