Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Politics and redemption

Wherever politics tries to be redemptive, it is promising too much. Where it wishes to do the work of God, it becomes, not divine, but demonic. - Pope Benedict XVI, Truth and Tolerance; p. 116.

Hat tip: Kyle-Anne Shiver.

Why does prayer work?

1 John 5:14 This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. James 5:16 ...