The Village Square

Leadership Next: A Rousing Civil Row

July 2nd, 2009

Meet Vita, a coming star in the next generation and one of founding members of Leadership NEXT, a Village Square project to encourage young adults to jump into the civic fray. Pitched at the 20-something crowd, we’re planning to spread civil discourse like a virus. Here’s Vita on faith…

Oughtn’t we wrap up the Faith & Politics year at the square with a rousing civil row a la Ning?

My brain is slushy from this kickboxing class I took a few hours ago at Women’s World. All the jumping, ya know.

But let’s do this; Commence by pitching the top 5 things you’d like someone else to know about your opinions re: le faith y le politics (yes french, spanish, english). Ready? Go ya’ll, go.

1) Church here……. State…………………………………………here.
2) I’m a Christian, fairly orthodox.
3) The Founders did not toil for a distinctively Christian nation so much as they banded together some crux philosophical principles, out of which extraordinary documents- the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence were birthed.
4) I think the interplay between Christianity specifically and politics (at least domestically) tends to be where much of the issue clusters. But faith is all-encompassing- politics and Islam, politics and Buddhism, politics and Judaism, Mormonism, etc. And this is equally about politics and secularism.
5) I don’t buy the notion that God gets stoked when we blow people up. Ever.

Vita’s was just the first round of the “rousing civil row.” Why not click on over and meet the rest of our GenNEXTers.

Entry Filed under: Religion and politics