Sunday Morning Round-Up
Mar 6th, 2005 by cadmus
Some articles in the papers that fit a Sunday morning theme.
Here’s a good article about being Christian and working in Washington DC. I’m sorry I missed the issue of Time magazine that is mentioned, it sounds interesting. The article is pleasant to read because it isn’t the anti-Christian stuff you find in the media usually. I also liked the article because the people it covers sound like they are more my type.
Some choice quotes:
Sen. John Thune is the movement’s new David, having overthrown former Senate minority leader Tom Daschle. When talking about abortion, the South Dakota Republican prefers abstractions: “I like to connect my principled view with my policy objectives,” he says. “Good principles can lead to good policy.”
“Principles.” “Policy.” This could be Hillary Clinton talking about health care, Ralph Nader discussing emission standards. He could be anyone in Washington, talking about anything.
To secular humanists or even your average Democrat, Thune Land is a scary, scary frontier. “He is this new kind of Republican creature who puts an innocuous face on the religious right,” says a Daschle aide who worked on the campaign. “Behind this cheerful frat-boy basketball-star persona is just the same old beast of the far right.”
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“This new generation has the same convictions but without the edge,” says Michael Cromartie, an evangelical scholar at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. “They may believe all the same things, but they are not going to go on ‘Larry King Live’ and say all homosexuals should die. They’ve learned how to present themselves.”
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After he got to Washington his colleagues voted him head of the Republican Study Committee, a group of powerful House conservatives once known as Newt Gingrich’s henchmen. Their platform hasn’t changed in 10 years, but under Pence’s leadership it’s a new day. “You do not demonize those who disagree with you,” he says. “If you believe in a woman’s right to choose, you’re not a bad person, we just disagree.”His aim is to subtly “season” his sentences with references to God, not overwhelm them.
“I hope,” he says, “I never make people uncomfortable.”
washingtonpost.com: Right With God
Read the whole thing.
NYT-Black Churches Struggle Over Their Role in Politics
Here’s an article about Christian clothing stores in California.
Eventually, however, he found another way to spread the word, which he says will be far more effective: retail.
Barreto runs a chain of five stores, all in Southern California malls, called C28. That name is a reference to the verse Colossians 2:8, ”See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ.” To battle the hollow deceptive philosophies that derive from human tradition, C28 sells several brands of apparel and accessories, including its house brand, Not of This World.
