Amen

I think a lot of people have been saying this lately: the moderates among us Christians have to step up and make our views preeminent over those radically conservative Christians who would take over, and in some cases have tken over, our government.

We’ve received some unexpected praise here for our cover story this month–primarily because we wrote about Dean Johnson, a minister, for God’s sake, who doesn’t believe he has the exclusive insight into God’s will, and doesn’t try to wield government power as if it were God’s hammer.

Thank God for Christians like him in our government, and for John Danforth, former senator from Missouri and Episcopal minister. His op-ed piece in the NY Times today is the most eloquent call to moderate Christians we’ve seen in a long time.

Read it. And when you’re done, say “Amen.” The Revs Johnson and Danforth represent just the sort of Christians we need more of in our capitols–and in our churches, for that matter.