This is something I am really wrestling through, truly…it’s not just some polemic engagement. I am torn between sort of a “realized eschatology” that says the kingdom is here and we may live in the light of that reality…and a sense of, for lack of better word, delayed gratification–which is really what my post was about. If indeed the modernist project of the last two hundred or so years has “enshrined change (or the future) and extolled the (unrealistic) revisionist past”, isn’t it interesting that the two candidates in this election year seem to fall right into this polarization of essentially the same perspective? One cries out for the Future (CHANGE) and the other remembers (or reimagines) the Past (EXPERIENCE). Experience suggests that their attempts will both fall short of the “Christian difference” we are looking for.

My friend eliacin (www.eliacin.com) has a very intriguing post up right now on the idolatrous pilgrimage to the voting booth. He infers that many evangelicals realistically assume that this one moment is the only moment their values come to bear in the world around them, the political world. Interesting that many believers seem to engage in a passionate praxis only once every 4 years.

Well anyhow…good stuff bro! I’m going to add you on my blogroll and follow what you’re up to around here, would you mind doing the same and adding me to yours?

Cheers!!