Of No Earthly Good

It has been said derogatorily of Christians that they are only interested in “pie in the sky, when they die, by and by”, and that they are “so Heavenly minded they are of no earthly good”.  The idea, supposedly, is that people who have a Christian world view have mentally opted out of dealing with thorny secular problems of the day; that their interests are limited to a few “religious issues”. A study released in April by the Barna group does show that there is a voting group that has an AWOL attitude about world concerns, but it is not the Christians.

A Modest Proposal for Reasonable Service

It was the old country preacher who said, “A theological bias is harder to remove than a Canadian thistle.”  One survey from the Barna folks seem to bear this out, and the results of a second survey draws some relevent implications.