Articles for tag: Civic Engagement

April 26, 2017

By Joe Boyd In the early 1980s, Speaker of the House of Representatives Tip O”Neill popularized a phrase that has stayed in the American lexicon ever since: “All politics is local.” I find that phrase moderately comforting at this time in American history when our political dialogue seems to have gone off the rails. I”m an advocate for individuals being politically active at national, state, and municipal levels. I also respect those who are less active for calculated reasons. That said, I have come to believe the church cannot afford to be inactive in the most local of contexts. This

June 16, 2010

Christian Standard

Church & Ministry Community Outreach

Pizzeria with a Purpose

By Mark A. Taylor I”ve just finished reading the testimony of a minister who wanted to get better acquainted with the members of his community. So, with the help of his wife and four kids, he started a pizzeria, and three-and-a-half years later, he”s convinced he made the right choice. “We knew more people in our small town after six months of making pizza, than we did in 10 years of pastoring the church,” he wrote in a comment to Scot McKnight”s review ofÂ Eats With SinnersÂ atÂ beliefnet.com. The minister explains that his family now connects with more than 600 families per

February 8, 2009

Christian Standard

Culture & Public Square Politics & Government

War . . . What Is It Good For? (Part 2)

By Karen J. Diefendorf Â CLICK HERE TO READ PART 1 OF THIS ARTICLE Â In part one of my article, published in last week”s issue, I outlined the church”s traditional criteria for deciding if it is moral for a nation to go to war (ius ad bellum) and how to conduct oneself during a war (ius in bello). I asserted Christians have a tradition by which we can determine when and how we should enter the political debate, and I implied that choosing not to enter that debate has deeply moral implications. Most of our Stone-Campbell Movement congregations support