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Blogroll Addition: Wendell Griffen

By Pseudoanonymous

Wendell Griffen is a prinicipled and outspoken man, a potent combination which cost him re-election to the Arkansas Court of Appeals. Now he has a blog and we are the better for it:

The fact that dangerous people exist who will do dangerous and even deadly things is no excuse for contaminating the gospel of God’s love and truth with a Jack Bauer approach to faith. So I suspect that Dr. King never contemplated having a “bring your gun to church Sunday.” He rightly understood that the gospel of Christ calls for “a more excellent way” to affirm freedom than to parade symbols of fear and death around while singing “Have Thine Own Way.”

Much the better:

Fox Television is part of the commercial broadcasting industry which has long defined excellence and virtue by commercial profit-making, not justice, truth, and mercy. So I do not expect Fox Television to create a Jack Bauer who lives according to the grace and truth of Jesus Christ.

But I do expect worshippers who answer to the name of Christ to recognize that Jack Bauer is not Jesus. I expect people who fuss about biblical inerrancy to respect the life, ministry, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ enough to know that torture violates the essence of Christianity.

A bit about Obama and the difference between “color-blind” and “race-neutral”:

Obama did not transcend race, nor did the Americans who cast their votes for him, because no person can transcend racial identity, either their own or that of anyone else. What Obama and most American voters did was refuse to allow the decision on who should lead our nation to turn on racism, meaning the view that Obama is somehow less worthy to be trusted to lead the nation on account of his racial identity.  Theirs was not color-blind decision-making which ignored the reality of Obama’s racial identity, either for Obama or the voters who supported him. Rather, it was race-neutral decision-making, which acknowledged Obama’s racial identity but refused to vest it with the illegitimate power to disqualify Obama from being elected on account of his racial identity.

We are fortunate that Wendell Griffen has not left public life.

Full post as published by Arkansawyer on June 21, 2009 (boomark / email).