Former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams recently spoke on “Christian politics” at a Faith in Politics conference in London saying:
“Christian politics is not about defending ‘Judeo-Christian values’ or those forms of religious culture, it is about pressing again and again on these areas where trust is shrinking and humanity is shrinking with it and asking ourselves, so how do we carry our vision forward into every area of political discussion?…
Our politics and our media really thrive on mistrust…It seems the basic emotion we’re encouraged to feel by quite a lot of political and media rhetoric is a sort of mild, subdued panic…
There comes to be a corrosive, circular, enclosed world in which what you are always longing for is a good reason to not trust someone. I don’t think that can be good for us.”
How does this translate to American politics in your experience? Is Christian politics, for you, about defending “Judeo-Christian values?”