At Christianity Today, Sarah Pulliam Bailey has an interview with former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice about race, foreign policy, and her faith:
One of your friends read an article about you and said, “You’re not an evangelical Christian,” and you said “Yeah, but I am.” How can evangelicals speak with conviction without alienating others?
It’s extremely important not to assault people. I gave a sermon about the extraordinary variability in the way that Christ approached different people when he was giving a message. He kind of confronts the young ruler: “It’s easier to pass through the eye of a camel than for a rich man to get into heaven.” Even Christ tried to meet people where they were rather than just being harsh with everybody. He speaks to the woman at the well. Sometimes I think evangelicals come at people so hard and so fast and don’t take time to listen to where somebody is. We can just try to have a lighter touch sometimes.
December 23rd, 2010 | 11:01 am
Any comment on her abortion stance, Joe?
December 23rd, 2010 | 11:12 am
Any comment on her abortion stance, Joe?
The answer she gives is pathetic and doesn’t seem to be well-thought out, much less informed by her faith.
Kudos to my friend Sarah, though, for asking her about it.
December 23rd, 2010 | 6:05 pm
Abortion is a “really hard moral decision[]”
Same sex marriage implicates “really hard issues.”
Joe, I respectfully disagree. “Pathetic” is too kind by far. We conservatives are reminded once again (as if we needed another reminder) that while libertarians are frequently our allies, they are not us.
December 24th, 2010 | 12:20 am
“Let me be clear. I’m evangelical and I’m proud of it. I consider an evangelical to be someone who professes faith in a way that draws others to it.”
So, the Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow on Public Policy of the Hoover Institution and the Honorable former Secretary of State Dr. Professor Condoleezza Rice (did I leave anything out Connie? Wouldn’t want to offend you), y’all say (all those titles requires first person plural) “evangelical” doesn’t have much to do with belief but instead it’s a marketing style, right? And then you say, when commenting on abortion, that “I don’t like the government involved in these really hard moral decisions.” And you finish if off with how “the United States has been served well by its religiosity.” Shee-zahm. Guess the slavery issue is still up for grabs and our wonderfully religious country did just fine with its imperialistic rape of Hawaii and the Philippines (we don’t need to mention the stuff you’re partially responsible for in the Middle East). With that kind of thinking, how did you manage to get through high school? But I got to give it to you, you’ve got a great marketing style, that’s how you must have gotten to be provost of Stanford (you can really zoom to the top in academic administration if the only kind of folks you’re likely to offend are the ones with convictions). But good luck with your book tour, I’m sure you’re doing a decent job for your bosses at Bertelsmann flogging their book (they own your publishers).
I’m with you on this one Joe.
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