Election season on theRubicon

“We are so used to thinking of spirituality as withdrawal from the world and human affairs that it is hard to think of it as political. Spirituality is personal and private we assume, while politics is public. But such a dichotomy drastically diminishes spirituality construing it as a relationship to God without implications for one’s relationship to the surrounding world. The God of Christian faith created the world and is deeply engaged in the affairs of the world. The notion that we can be related to God and not to the world – that we can practice a spirituality that is not political – is in conflict with the Christian understanding of God.” (Glenn Tinder, Can We Be Good Without God?, Atlantic Monthly, December 1989)

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t is election season in North America! Starting this Friday (September 19) and continuing for the next couple of months, theRubicon will be running a weekly commentary on the Canadian election written by a political insider out of Ottawa.

Although this election may not be nearly as gripping as the American Presidential race, the common themes of democratic values, the use and abuse of power, the tension between church and state and the interplay of faith and politics… these are universal in relevance and interest.

So, Rubicon readers, watch for it every week starting this Friday.

And remember, as Tip O’Neill once famously said: “All politics are local.”

theRubicon Team

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