American Views Abroad

 
In the Idea section of this past Sunday's Boston Globe, Charles Marsh writes in his essay What It Means To Be a Christian After George W. Bush:

Why did American evangelicals not pause for a moment in the rush to war to consider the near-unanimous disapproval of the global Christian community? The world wide Christian opposition seems to me the most neglected story related to the religious debate about Iraq.

...Conservative evangelical elites, in exchange for political access and power, have ransacked the faith and trivialized its convictions.

...One thing, however, is clear: Any hope for a renewal depends on the willingness to reach out to our brothers and sisters abroad. We must reshape the way we live in the global Christian community and form a deeper link to the human family and to life. To do this, we must begin by learning to be quieter, and by reaffirming the simple fact that our faith transcends political loyalty or nationhood.

www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/07/08/god_and_country
- posted by Gloria @ 10:53 AM