Our Approach is Radically Different
Yes, there could have been a better title, but it is the phrase that stuck on the refrigerator door of my mind and I can’t shake it off. I have been thinking on the subject of sonship and politics. Sonship is a term we use to identify our relationship with God as our Father, and the width and breadth of that joyful life. (We never use this term in a gender-specific way, but in a way that reveals our place in the Family.) Politics is our perception of the process of government’s decision-making and the philosophies guiding those decisions. This is not an article–to nip a weak idea in the bud–that will give you ammunition to win an argument, or put someone in a prejudiced category based on your own political ideas. Sons approach politics radically different, and we are going to take the time to discover how and why. (more…)