Seems strange that a woman who could not offer a cogent answer to a simple question like, "What newspapers do you read?" now has a 452 page, best-selling book on the market. What a marketing machine... "Going Rogue" is going 'round in church circles.
At some point, I hope Christians will understand that while we too often join the crowd in demonizing everyone who doesn't share our values, we're losing the chance to be heard on the eternal things that really matter. I take some solace in my views from a well-researched book, UnChristian, about how the non-religious view Christians:
"From a vantage point further in the future, I think that an honest diagnosis will tell the truth about the pivotal role the religious right has played in these depressing statistics. In the aftermath of the religious right's ascendancy, it is not an accident that "antihomosexual" is the number one perception of Christians in America these days, followed closely by "judgmental" and "hypocritical" and "insensitive." Young people today could, if we had taken a wiser path for the last few decades, think "antipoverty" or "pro-environmental" or "pro-fidelity" or "antiviolence" when they hear "Christian" or "evangelical." But because of the path influential people have taken over the last thirty years or so, what young people think of the religious right is what they think about evangelicals and even Christians in general." Brian McLaren
"In my book, Kingdoms in Conflict, I make the case for why Christians should never have a political party. It is a huge mistake to become married to an ideology, because the greatest enemy of the gospel is ideology. Ideology is a man-made format of how the world ought to work, and Christians instead believe in the revealed truth of scripture." Chuck Colson
"The conservative religious movement in America today has been politically corrupted. Evangelicalism has been hijacked and usurped by partisan political forces. Conservative religion is now being driven and dictated by secular, right-wing political forces. So basically, the conservative religious movement -- or at least parts of it, the politicized part of it -- has sold its soul to partisan politics." Jim Wallis