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Bush, Clinton, World News
I just finished Decision Points by George W. Bush. I am also working my way through The Clinton Tapes by Taylor Branch. Liberals who despise Bush won’t take the time to read his book, and are grinding their teeth that I even mention his name. Conservatives who despise Clinton are doing the same. That is why I read both, actually.…
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The embarrassment of cultural Christianity
This just gets ridiculous. It’s crazy in the political arena, but now, you have to line up so narrowly along party lines, it’s just plain nuts. The Texas House Republicans aren’t satisfied with a conservative Republican running their party in the house. No. The leader they have is Jewish and conservative. What is their preference? A Christian conservative Republican leader.…
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Our Delightful Responsive Government
In my continuing saga of “representatives” in our glorious republic, I actually called my senator’s office to ask about the current issue with the TSA and airport security. The reason for the call was to find out her position on the issue of the full body scanners since she is on the sub-committee that overseas airport security. To my (non)shock,…
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Our Delightful Democracy in Action
The day after the election I wrote to all three congressional representatives who “represent” me in Congress: Two senators and a congressman. It was a joke because they never respond with any care any more. I simply did it to see how long it would take to get a canned response from them. To one senator’s credit, they responded back…
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Experiments in Political Involvement
Two things I have done in the past week to see how the political climate is changing. 1. I sent an email to my two senators and one congressman to see how long it would take to get a canned response from them. They never respond directly anymore. They never answer the question asked anymore. So, I’m just running a…
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Christian Nation?
Yet more fodder for the debate. Michael Gerson writes a great column on the myth of this nation being founded as a “Christian” nation. I say myth not because I’m an atheist, obviously. Nor is it my wish to give aid and comfort to organizations like “Americans United for Separation of Church and State.” I say myth simply because of…
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The Pulpit, the Prophet, and Politics
In a bit of disappointing news, a bunch of preachers are once again going to endorse candidates from the pulpit. Even more disappointing to me is one is from my own denomination. When we, as pastors, step up to endorse candidates from a pulpit we are forfeiting our prophetic voice in the community. We are choosing to play politics rather…
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Values
I grew up conservative and Republican. There is no getting around it. This is not a confession about how I am now a flaming liberal Democrat. I’m not Jim Wallis. Over time I’ve become more convinced of the church’s need to take a prophetic stance in culture so that we cannot be defined by any political party. (Which is again…
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Testimony
This is so incredibly funny. I don’t know why he was in Congress for a hearing, but it was incredibly funny.
Category: Politics
