In an exclusive excerpt from 'Jon Ward's Testimony: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Failed a Generation,' the journalist remembers how John McCain's choice of a running mate showed how he and his family diverged on politics.
make her national debut at a rally in Dayton, Ohio. I was intrigued and generally favorable about McCain’s choice. My dad was very excited, as my sister and I both remember.
Like others in our church culture, I didn’t think of myself as all that political. But because of my background, I was actually quite political, in that I was a knee-jerk Republican. I was still under the spell of my upbringing, which had taught me there was nothing to think about. Just vote GOP. This dismissal of thinking carefully was based on the notion that because Democrats support abortion, voting for any Democrat was unthinkable.
However, politics has high stakes for those who are on the margins or being abused, because often they need the government to step in, and they need advocates to help them get the assistance they need. We had taken Christ’s message — “whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me” — and limited the application to only one group of the weak and defenseless, the unborn.
For someone like Palin, truth was something we already knew. It was settled and beyond questioning, and the job was to fight against the godless heathens who refused to acknowledge it. For someone like Obama, the fight was not so much against people as it was to strive toward a clarity that was elusive. He was sure of his proposals but less dogmatic about ultimate things, knowing our limitations, understanding that we each see through a glass dimly.
C. J. had installed Josh Harris as senior pastor of Covenant Life Church in 2004. Harris was thirty by that time, having worked at the church for seven years. Harris was someone who wouldn’t push very hard against anything C. J. wanted. But the leadership around C. J. was fraying. C. J. and Sovereign Grace Ministries had retreated from political or public engagement years before, but he could not escape the politics within his own leadership structure.
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