Although most of my readers won’t care, there’s an interesting election* other than the Presidential race which I have been following — namely, the election of the Moderator of the General Assembly of the PC(USA).
I’ve officially decided that I support Bruce Reyes-Chow, and this is why: “Why being painfully fair is, well, painful”
Some highlights:
I was reading one blog today about the “Liberal tactics of . . . .” when anyone who has been keeping up with the debates about this particular issue, knows full well that the very same tactic was used by a traditionally conservative movement earlier in the year. When it is bad it is a “tactic” and when it is good it is a “strategy?” And it goes both ways. Left to right, right to left, up and down, inside and out ;-)
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If we are going to move into something new, denominationally or relationally, we have GOT to start truly appreciating one another as complex human beings trying to discern our way through life AND publicly acknowledge that reality.
This sentiment is something that has been painfully missing from the entire conversation, both in our church and in our political sphere. I’ve heard people overgeneralize and baselessly ascribe all kinds of nefarious motivations to people whose opinions differ on this issue or not, and it’s really destructive, not constructive — both to our larger society, and to the interests of those people. Nobody is convinced or converted through being told that they’re an Evil Person and being accused of things they don’t do: if you want to help your own side out, you have to engage those you consider “your enemy” in some kind of conversation. This is a key principle behind Christian ethics, and George Ellis’s does an excellent presentation of it, both in his Speaking of Faith interview and in what little of On The Moral Nature of the universe: Cosmology, Theology, and Ethics I’ve read..
Go read the rest of the post. It will be good for your soul.
*Of course, being Calvinists, this election is an election through the sovereignty of God, not by human beings. But at the end of the day, it’s still a vote. We’re funny like that.
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