Topic: Politics
Former diplomat Thomas Farr is concerned the Obama administration has yet to fill this important position. More
Religion’s role in US foreign policy, gays in the military, and Mennonites and the national anthem were all in the news this past week. More
A Mennonite pastor in Fresno, California says “even the worst of the worst of the worst are human beings, and they can change.” More
On one level, Obama’s State of the Union address was low on religious rhetoric. Yet he used our civil religious tradition to connects the theme of American uniqueness to the idea that the nation stands under some form of providential judgment. More
Listening to President Obama’s State of the Union address, one underlying theme made a big impression: the problem of pluralism and how to deal with competing worldviews, ideologies, values, and political beliefs in the same country. It is clear that … More
“It is doubly ironic that the core of the first State of the Union address from a black president would contain such a profoundly affirmative nod in the direction of good old US economic imperialism…first, the history of slavery and racism is definitely connected to such classic American economic hubris, and, second, he made this particular case so clearly dependent on the rhetoric of Martin Luther King.” More
The painful awareness that those on the margin, for whom Hebrew and Christian scriptures declare God’s special affinity, could only peek through the cracks of the State of the Union address says something more about us than it does the president or the address itself. More
“President Barack Obama has faith in America. He both opened and closed his State of the Union address with remarks about his belief in the power of the American spirit, which he defined as our fundamental strength, optimism, generosity, and decency as a people and as a nation.” More
“Everything is gone,” says Rev. Caleb Deliard, a Haitian-American pastor. “It’s all gone. It hurts us deep down. We are, as a people now, wounded souls.” More
“One important thing that religion brings to politics is a certain kind of realism about human nature and human possibilities.” More
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