Comments on: Voices in the Night: What keeps *you* awake? http://young.anabaptistradicals.org/2008/10/09/voices-in-the-night-what-keeps-you-awake/ let's activate something Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:32:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Amy http://young.anabaptistradicals.org/2008/10/09/voices-in-the-night-what-keeps-you-awake/#comment-18915 Amy Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:39:02 +0000 http://young.anabaptistradicals.org/?p=567#comment-18915 As a Canadian Mennonite Christian living in the US I can't vote and I'm glad. It means that I have an excuse not to get tied up in party politics. Don't get me wrong, I have followed the campaign and laughed at Tina Fey's Palin. I desire change in the new administration that give not the middle class but the poor something to hope for. But being Canadian means I don't have to pick the better of two evils. I don't know if I would anyway. Here in my urban, educated, liberal, upper middle class setting is is paramount to sin *not* to vote - never mind vote for the 'other candidate' as BeccaJayne so artfully named him. I hate that in our liberalness we shut off or tune out or actively scorn other Christians who try to faithfully vote with their consciences. I don't really lose sleep over this, but I would be happy to be called a Crazy Christian myself if it meant people recognized that my allegiance is not in any government but in Jesus and the kingdom of God. :) As a Canadian Mennonite Christian living in the US I can’t vote and I’m glad. It means that I have an excuse not to get tied up in party politics. Don’t get me wrong, I have followed the campaign and laughed at Tina Fey’s Palin. I desire change in the new administration that give not the middle class but the poor something to hope for. But being Canadian means I don’t have to pick the better of two evils. I don’t know if I would anyway.

Here in my urban, educated, liberal, upper middle class setting is is paramount to sin *not* to vote - never mind vote for the ‘other candidate’ as BeccaJayne so artfully named him. I hate that in our liberalness we shut off or tune out or actively scorn other Christians who try to faithfully vote with their consciences. I don’t really lose sleep over this, but I would be happy to be called a Crazy Christian myself if it meant people recognized that my allegiance is not in any government but in Jesus and the kingdom of God.

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]]> By: Skylark http://young.anabaptistradicals.org/2008/10/09/voices-in-the-night-what-keeps-you-awake/#comment-18862 Skylark Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:46:40 +0000 http://young.anabaptistradicals.org/?p=567#comment-18862 Well, my personal financial situation (not caused by the national/global financial situation) has kept me up at night lately, as have the moves toward civil war in Bolivia, but yes, it bothers me too that my convictions can't let me fully support anyone or any platform in any election. Oh, and by the way, Speaking of Faith is aired on NPR at 7 a.m. on Sunday mornings, at least on my local station. Well, my personal financial situation (not caused by the national/global financial situation) has kept me up at night lately, as have the moves toward civil war in Bolivia, but yes, it bothers me too that my convictions can’t let me fully support anyone or any platform in any election.

Oh, and by the way, Speaking of Faith is aired on NPR at 7 a.m. on Sunday mornings, at least on my local station.

]]> By: BeccaJayne http://young.anabaptistradicals.org/2008/10/09/voices-in-the-night-what-keeps-you-awake/#comment-18852 BeccaJayne Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:57:26 +0000 http://young.anabaptistradicals.org/?p=567#comment-18852 Here's the link that somehow didn't make it to my blog. Oops! http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/ Here’s the link that somehow didn’t make it to my blog. Oops!

http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/

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