Collin Hansen at CT writes about the very apparent “Left-Left” connection. The connection is there he says, but not “inevitable.” He names several who, as Mark Driscoll claims for himself, are (or were) theologically conservative and politically and socially liberal.
The subhead asks, “Does one lead the other?” I think the answer is yes, but it’s hard to say which. I’ve known quite a few people who held liberal views of society and politics, and felt uncomfortable with the conservative beliefs they’d held. So they became emergent or progressive Christians.
I’ve only known a few who were really guided by their liberal theology. It seems too often that politics comes before Jesus. I catch myself from time to time saying things in a political conversation that make me cringe as the sentences are still forming. At that moment I can choose to make my theology meet my politics, or make my politics meet my theology. It’s a struggle.
H/T JT
There’s a movement afoot (how often do you get to use that word?) whose leaders like to repeat a particular statistic over and over. I’ll pause and let you try to figure it out, as you list everyone who fits this description in your head. Okay. Here’s a smattering of statements from the group in question:
I’m not buying that Barack Obama has suddenly shed an uncommon and unprecedented light on the discussion of race in America. And I’m not buying that the racial views of Jeremiah Wright and others are at all justifiable.
