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Today with Richard Haas - Council on Foreign Relations

Posted July 17, 2007 by Bob Roberts Jr. // 2 comments

I fly early this morning to Manhattan for a workshop Richard Haas is leading with other speakers on religion and foreign policy. There is no such thing as a secular world. The old days of diplomats trying to develop foreign and public policy apart from faith is over. There was the idea that faith was a private matter. Does anyone believe that anymore? When you see our current world situation and the future prosepects only dialogue and new ways of thinking about faith in the public sector can save us from all out destruction. I still believe what Jefferson wrote is our best hope of learning to live together. In his “wall of separation” between the church and the government - it was never a denial of faith or a minimalization of it - only a way to allow people of different faiths to communicate without making it public policy. I’m excited about some of the people who will be there and the presenters. At a time globally when we need “religious” statesmen the most - who is there? Why are they not there?

Comments

shaw says:
Jul 17, 2007 at 10:22 AM
Right on Bob. Right on. The problem is that, at least in my policy school (LBJ School at UT Austin), there are *very few* devout followers of Jesus. One of the "frontiers" I see in this regard are giving our younger people a vision for entering the public sector for the glory of God and the sake of His kingdom. This is not happening much - take my policy school as an example. We need to be filtering, with discernment, more of our maturing younger Christians into policy and law schools with a vision for public service as a follower of the King of kings.

Here's John Stott quib way of addressing this "frontier":

"We often given the impression that if a young Christian man is really keen for Christ he will undoubtedly become a foreign missionary, that if he is not quite as keen as that he will stay at home and become a pastor, that if he lacks the dedication to be a pastor, he will no doubt serve as a doctor or a teacher, while those who end up in social work or the media or (worst of all) in politics are not far removed from serious backsliding" (from John Stott, Christian Mission in the Modern World, Intervarsity Press, 1975, p. 31).
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Bob Roberts says:
Jul 18, 2007 at 07:58 PM
I hope to help change that!

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