On the heels of my last post, I see that Neil has found out that there is a liberty Bible (CEV), complete with a bold American flag and the Statue of Liberty on its cover. Its ghastly.
The Christian Right and the Republican Party…
After we have just finished our sermon series on Church and State, I found two bits of news that just came out fascinating. Both relate to the Christian Right and how their internal thinking works to either align them closely to the Republican party or to buck a strong affiliation.
The first was a New York Times article (“Disowning Conservative Politics, Evangelical Pastor Rattles Flock“) about a pastor of a Minnesota megachurch who, after eschewing a close connection between the church and republican politics, lost a fifth of his 5000 member congregation.
More on the continuation side…