Tag Archives: The Presidential Election

John Piper on Political Engagement

John Piper“We engage as recovering fools with empathy for the foolish.”

- John Piper

Quote of the Week – Mark Galli on Pastors and the Election Season

Pastors are right about this much: The election season is a unique moment in a church’s life, but not because the pastor has the chance to lobby for his candidate. No, the Christian preacher has the unparalleled opportunity to act as the only sane person in a nation mad for power, the only voice in an ephemeral season filled with lies and half-lies to speak abiding truths — that elections (even “the most important in a generation”) come and go, that princes (even “the most gifted in a lifetime”) appear and pass away, that nations (even “the greatest in history”) rise and fall.

-Mark Galli

Sarah Palin’s Speech and A Sampling of What the Web is Saying About It

If anyone missed Sarah Palin’s speech last night, you missed a doozy.

Listed below are some various thoughts and articles from around the Web today.

Peggy Noonan on Palin (this was before the speech, but its good reading)

Mary Mitchel (Chicago Sun-Times)

Jeanne Cummings & Beth Frerking (Politico)

Gloria Steinem (LA Times)

Meghan O’Rourke (Slate.com)

John Dickerson (Slate.com)

Tom Raum & Liz Sidoti (AP News)

Roger Simon (Politico)

And finally, this was simply hilarious.

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