Christianity and Politics Discussion

One of the things that, more importantly, spoke to some deep

part of me about the Catholic social teaching is this idea

that Jesus Christ does not confine himself to the little spheres

of your life. That if it's true, it has to be true everywhere.

And he's the Lord of your life, the whole of your life. Exactly. And yes,

Jesus really cares

about how you treat your wife, and he really cares about how you treat your kids,

but he also cares about everything else, too. And I do think that this is,

you know, one of the frustrations I had growing up, again,

as a young conservative Christian,

is this idea that it sometimes felt like whenever Christians engaged in politics,

we were very comfortable engaging with this or that social or cultural issue,

but not anything else.

And I actually think there's an opportunity for

us to rediscover a more fully Christian politics that says that actually Jesus has

opinions about all these things. And in fact,

if you don't get all of it right,

you risk getting the most important parts wrong.

You can't just confine your faith to these

narrow little slices of society or of culture or of your own life.

It's got to be true for the whole thing.