Christians and non-Christian voters alike have become far too comfortable slinging rocks at the expense of making any real political or social progress.
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When it comes to engaging and influencing culture, too many Christians think too highly of political activism.
With participation in politics so low at the moment I think Christians should ensure their views are represented at all levels and not leave it to others.
Politics are not the task of a Christian.
Evangelical Christians, who once were a ridiculed irrelevant sectarian movement, have, over just three decades, become a powerful voting bloc that can no longer be ignored.
I had someone a month ago tell me at a campaign lunch that you can't be a Christian and a Democrat. I think that that view is dissipating very, very fast.
The Christian Coalition is still about Christianity, even if it's an idea of Christianity that many Christians might not go along with.
I will be the first to admit that the sanctity of life and the preservation of religious freedom are not even among the top ten concerns of most voters. But those issues should be of primary importance to those who call themselves Christians.
Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.
One of the challenges Christians confront is how the politics we helped create has made it difficult to sustain the material practices constitutive of an ecclesial culture to produce Christians.
We need to be politically engaged, but peculiar in how we engage. Jesus and the early Christians had a marvelous political imagination. They turned all the presumptions and ideas of power and blessing upside down.
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