“I sometimes marvel when people running for office are asked about faith and their answer is, ‘Oh, I don't get into that, I keep that completely separate. My faith is completely immaterial to how I think and how I govern.' And to me that's really tantamount to saying that my faith is so marginal, so insignificant, so inconsequential that it really doesn't impact the way I live. I would consider that an extraordinarily shallow faith.”
Mike Huckabee—The Republican presidential candidate and former Southern Baptist pastor was discussing faith and politics at the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. (RNS)
“The tragic thing is to think how many churches this Sunday will be treated to safe, nice, harmless, insignificant, intramural and trivial-pursuit sermons. There are going to be an awful lot of sermons preached in Christian churches … that actually probably help the world become a worse place.”
Brian McLaren—The author and former pastor was speaking at a Festival of Homiletics in Nashville, Tenn. (ABP)