28 Mar, 2008 in
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When you pray, move your feet. To pray for the safety and security of Gustav victims without moving our feet to help clear debris, or at the least lifting our wallets to help afford the cleanup, is to speak love of neighbor and practice indifference.To pray for the life of an unborn baby without lifting our[...]
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In a word: Ecclesiology.
While I find my support for political candidates to be tedious at best, I cannot help but react powerfully to Senator Clinton’s recent comments regarding Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
“He would not have been my pastor[.] You don’t choose your family, but you choose what church you want to attend.”
This is exactly the fundamental assumption of the American Project, that religious instruction and conformity is at the discretion of the individual, rather than the revealed community of God and it’s leaders.
We don’t get to choose our families, true. But our pastors, and our leaders, are as much our families as those tied to us by bloodlines. If there is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither Black nor White, Methodist or Pentecostal.
Clinton speaks for change, yet the change she advocates is a change that doesn’t challenge the fundamental assumptions of the american project. Others, while still involved in the seductive siren of politics, are at least arguing for a change that upsets the american apple cart.
Besides, even if saying “God Damn America” is un-american, what makes us think that America is beyond God’s wrath? ugh.