11.09.08

Fitch, Walsh on Obama

Posted in culture, life happens at 5:09 pm by len

Some helpful reflection happening in the wake of Tuesdays election. The real challenges lay ahead. But how much real freedom does even a US President have in the current economic world?

David Fitch writes HERE.

” The danger of Obama is that everybody wants to be part of something big : but the kingdom is usually small (It’s like a mustard seed). Let us not look to something big like the Obama presidency to bring in Christ’s justice. I fear the young emerging missional Christians have just shot their entire energy outtake for 2008-2009 into getting Obama elected. I fear we sit euphoric (if exhausted) as if to say we did it, its accomplished. And now the daily life engagements for Christ and his salvatiomn/justice do not seem near as exciting. This is the danger of Barack Obama to the emerging/missional churches.”

Brian Walsh writes HERE.
“… It is no overstatement to describe the presidency of George W. Bush as imperial in character. You don’t have to be a left wing ideologue to observe that the Pax Americana of the last eight years, the centralization of coercive power legitimated in a post 9/11 America, and the American exceptionalism that has laced the rhetoric of the White House is all the stock in trade of empire…”

See also the publication of comments on this piece by Hendrik Hart of the Institute for Christian Studies, under the title, “Obama and Cyrus: A Meditation in the Garden.”

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