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Being a former three-term Republican U.S. senator from Missouri and an ordained Episcopal priest, John Danforth has watched the changes in his party and the church with growing alarm. Now he wants to voice his concerns and demand change. Danforth speaks out obviously against the religious rights conflation of the political agenda with a religious agenda. He argues that no-one should presume to embody Gods truth. He castigates the religious right for their concentrate on wedge issues that drive people apart and that create tests for religious orthodoxy. In fact, Danforth looks closely at many of the major wedge issues of our own day: abortion, stem cell research, gay marriage, the Schiavo case, and public displays of religion. In Faith and Politics, Danforth offers a blueprint for continue that is based on years of hard-won political experience and a life of religious service by calling for Christians to look to the Bible and Christian teachings for ways in which they can practice their faith daily to be able to inspire a trust and concentrate on common ground, not fringe issues. Being a respected former senator, ambassador to Sudan, priest, and especially here as an author who writes openly about political life, and ambition, humbly about his achievements, and above all with clarity and reason that both Republicans and Democrats hear all too little of, Senator Danforth is uniquely qualified to demand the change we so desperately need.
