There's a New Set of Rules, No More Pain or Confusion

Congratulations to Mr. Andrew Tuegel for correctly naming "Moment of Surrender" by U2 as the Monday Song of the Day.

A little food for thought from God's Name in Vain by Stephen L. Carter this evening...

Yes, religions can and sometimes must be politically active-but they must be extraordinarily cautious about how they do it, because too much politics can destroy them. In particular, electoral politics has been a difficult and often harmful location for religionists to try to make a stand against culture. Possessing an honored voice that sometimes prevails is not the same as regularly exercising actual secular power to tell people, at a point of a gun, what they must do.

Religion, which should be in love with witness and persuasion, has all too often in history allowed itself to be seduced by the lure of temporal power, a passionate but dysfunctional and even immoral love affair that has led to much human misery and has been destructive as well of true faith.

Current Reading
God's Name in Vain: The Wrongs and Rights of Religion in Politics by Stephen L. Carter