(Incidentally) Faith-based Politics

"The moment that life is formed on the presumption that we are not participants in God's continuing history of creation and redemption, we are acting on unbelief rather than faith. ... Most American Christians [assume] that the key to our political effectiveness lies in translating our political assertions into terms that can be embraced by any thinking, sensitive, modern (though disbelieving), average American."

Stanley Hauerwas, Resident Aliens p. 36-37