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Tag Archives: politics
Homogeneousness is not next to godliness
“We are in a season of lament,” says the pastor of a church divided politically down the middle, right down to his own marriage. Linda, one of those church members and a regular Catch reader who experiences that division in … Continue reading
Get serious!
I’m getting close to being mad, but then again, that would be against everything I’m about to say. Still I have a question: how long have I been holding forth in this little corner of cyberspace — questioning, suggesting, sometimes … Continue reading
What America needs now
It’s the hammer of justice … Continue reading
What’s great about living in America right now
“It’s not about morality, it’s about grace; it’s not about politics, it’s about people; it’s not about what we’re against, it’s about who we’re for.” And the battle’s just begun There’s many who lost, but tell me who has won? … Continue reading
Living in a meaner, tougher nation
Where is George Herbert Walker Bush when we need him? If we ever needed that “kinder, gentler nation” he talked about, it’s now. But it seems so distant, doesn’t it? Isn’t that soft? Isn’t that weak to be kind and … Continue reading
Christians and cultural ambiguity
Yesterday’s Catch apparently created a number of favorable tweets. My wife, Marti, thought it contained one of my best sentences ever in, “And even if [government] could get people to behave like Christians, without a relationship with Jesus Christ, they, … Continue reading
C.S. Lewis on Christianity and politics
In a recent article in The New York Times about the political views of C.S. Lewis, Peter Wehner writes, For those of us who believe in the truth of Christianity and still believe in the good of politics, the last … Continue reading
It’s Halloween, and everything is already pretty scary
It’s Halloween and no one needs a mask this year because, with the most divisive, disruptive election in memory only a week away, everything is already pretty scary. When a newspaper, after endorsing candidates from a single political party for … Continue reading
The preeminence of being and doing
I can remember thinking that if we could just put a born-again Christian in the White House, everything would be different. Everyone in the nation would automatically be Christian. We’d all fall on our knees and worship God. And, of … Continue reading
Breaking free from the snare of politics
Near the end of Christ’s three-year ministry on earth with His disciples, upon entering a home, He grabbed the bowl of water that was often provided at the entrance of a home in order to wash the dirt from the … Continue reading
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