Between the Trees

Might I suggest Romans 13 is not the one-size-fits-all justification for submitting to every form of governmental perversions? After all, the dude who wrote it was executed as a traitor to the state.

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If you don’t read Pitts’ column, you owe it to yourself to start.
Here’s his latest.

No time to write anything substantial for the blog this week, so I’m just linking to a column that ran today on Rick Santorum, the former Republican Senator from Pennsylvania.

Since the passing of Proposition 8 in California and this poorly-researched article in Newsweek, the Christian blogosphere has been all a flutter about same-sex marriage.
Sadly, most of the discussion sounds a lot like a clanging gong. (Although that may still be giving many of the culture warriors too much credit.)
Which is why I was sooooo [...]

A rather common argument I hear from many Christian friends is that Christianity is a natural seedbed from which modern ideas of democracy and representative government naturally flow. I’ve never been totally comfortable with this argument and something I came across in my reading tonight seems to reinforce the insufficiency of the approach described above. [...]

“It seems significant that most of the references to gods and idols being the work of human hands occur in contexts where it is particularly national or state gods that are in view. For this is where the power of the gods seems strongest and where Israel’s radical assertion is correspondingly most countercultural and polemical. [...]

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Update/Clarification: Some have told me the video isn’t working for them. The essential issue is this: A Catholic priest is denying the sacrament to parishioners who voted for Senator Obama on the basis of Obama’s pro-choice views. Below is my initial response and the comments of a few people [...]

Well, I’m watching the election results come in, and it looks like Barack Obama will be the next president of the United States. I’m sure that some of you are elated and some of you are, well, not. As for me, I’m mostly just glad to be able to spend my time thinking and blogging [...]

Some of the best explorations of politics from a Christian view that I’ve read/heard:
Mike Hsu’s sermon from yesterday, “Grace to those on the outside.” I’m with Mike - if you’re offended, consider it the Holy Spirit’s rebuke.
John Piper’s prayer for this election.
Eric’s post last week.
If on Wednesday morning you wake up and are tempted to [...]