What could be more fitting for an election year than reading a couple books on faith and politics? The Luther Seminary Bookstore recommends these two:
God’s Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It by Jim Wallis (HarperCollins paperback, $11.25 discount price)
Since when did believing in God and having moral values make you pro-war, pro-rich and pro-Republican? And since when did promoting and pursuing a progressive social agenda with a concern for economic security, health care, and educational opportunity mean you had to put faith in God aside? Author Wallis delves into these questions and challenges both sides to hold our government more accountable to key values.
Holy Vote: The Politics of Faith in America by Ray Suarez (Rayo hardcover, $18.75 discount price)
This book examines what Americans believe, and how this belief structure fuels the debates that dominate the issues on our evening news. Like Wallis, Suarez looks at how both politics AND religion have polarized over the issues in past elections.