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Michael Wear
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How Reclaiming Hope led to The Spirit of Our Politics
The best way I could start describing the development of The Spirit of Our Politics is to share about my first book, Reclaiming Hope.
I had two main aims with Reclaiming Hope. First, through an honest account of what I saw working in politics, I wanted to promote humility about one’s own political views and a rightly-grounded hope as integral to a Christian’s politics. Idolatry is the opposite of t Read more of this blog post »
I had two main aims with Reclaiming Hope. First, through an honest account of what I saw working in politics, I wanted to promote humility about one’s own political views and a rightly-grounded hope as integral to a Christian’s politics. Idolatry is the opposite of t Read more of this blog post »
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“Christians cannot protest for their religious freedom one day and protest against a mosque opening up down the street the next. Not only does that undermine Christian witness in politics, it undermines religious freedom.”
― Reclaiming Hope: Lessons Learned in the Obama White House About the Future of Faith in America
― Reclaiming Hope: Lessons Learned in the Obama White House About the Future of Faith in America
“Unless Americans demand from their party’s politicians something more than zero-sum politics, that is what we will get on religious freedom issues for the foreseeable future.”
― Reclaiming Hope: Lessons Learned in the Obama White House About the Future of Faith in America
― Reclaiming Hope: Lessons Learned in the Obama White House About the Future of Faith in America
“aversion is the tendency to dislike and distrust those who disagree with us politically, particularly those in a different political party. This aversion is toxic for our politics, but as we’ve seen, it creeps into the communion of believers as well. The very thing that ought to make Christians identifiable to the world—our love for one another (John 13:35)—is overridden by our politics, thus undermining the testimony of our faith.”
― The Spirit of Our Politics: Spiritual Formation and the Renovation of Public Life
― The Spirit of Our Politics: Spiritual Formation and the Renovation of Public Life
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“Unless Americans demand from their party’s politicians something more than zero-sum politics, that is what we will get on religious freedom issues for the foreseeable future.”
― Reclaiming Hope: Lessons Learned in the Obama White House About the Future of Faith in America
― Reclaiming Hope: Lessons Learned in the Obama White House About the Future of Faith in America
“Christians cannot protest for their religious freedom one day and protest against a mosque opening up down the street the next. Not only does that undermine Christian witness in politics, it undermines religious freedom.”
― Reclaiming Hope: Lessons Learned in the Obama White House About the Future of Faith in America
― Reclaiming Hope: Lessons Learned in the Obama White House About the Future of Faith in America
“aversion is the tendency to dislike and distrust those who disagree with us politically, particularly those in a different political party. This aversion is toxic for our politics, but as we’ve seen, it creeps into the communion of believers as well. The very thing that ought to make Christians identifiable to the world—our love for one another (John 13:35)—is overridden by our politics, thus undermining the testimony of our faith.”
― The Spirit of Our Politics: Spiritual Formation and the Renovation of Public Life
― The Spirit of Our Politics: Spiritual Formation and the Renovation of Public Life
