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11/29/2004 Archived Entry: "Red and Blue Together"

Posted by antle @ 09:22 PM EST [Link]

RED AND BLUE LIVE TOGETHER IN PERFECT HARMONY: As someone who has divided his time between red and blue America, and spent most of his life as a right-winger behind "enemy lines" in Massachusetts, I really enjoyed William Stuntz's Tech Central Station piece on his experiences as an evangelical Harvard law professor. He says he loves both of these communities to which he belongs even though one is the bluest blue and the other the reddest red, something to which I can only say "amen."

The article also contains some comments on the nature of faith, self-doubt and the realization of imperfection that are somewhat relevant to our earlier discussion of religious belief and practice:

That gets to an aspect of evangelical culture that the mainstream press has never understood: the combination of strong faith commitments with uncertainty, the awareness that I don't know everything, that I have a lot more to learn than to teach. Belief that a good God has a plan does not imply knowledge of the plan's details. Judging from the lives and conversations of my Christian friends, faith in that God does not tend to produce a belief in one's infallibility. More the opposite: Christians believe we see "through a glass, darkly" when we see at all -- and that we're constantly tempted to imagine ourselves as better and smarter than we really are.

Read on.

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There's an evangelical law prof
at Harvard? Now that's news!

I will have to read this piece.

Posted by izzy @ 11/30/2004 03:42 PM EST