Preachin’ and politickin’
Thursday, May 29th, 2008
By Staff
Like many small-town preachers, my granddaddy welcomed the occasional politician to the old Baptist parsonage in Boiling Springs, N.C., lo those many decades ago. It was fairly standard procedure in those days of door-to-door politics for candidates for county office or even governor to ask upon arriving in a small town, "So, who's the minister here?" And they would make a courtesy call.
The visits were short and rarely if ever included any discussion of endorsements. The candidates typically just wanted to make sure that when word got around, as it did to most everybody in a little community, that word would include mention that the candidate of course went by the preacher's house. I don't recall whether Granddaddy ever endorsed anybody. He generally was not of the view that pastoring and politics made a sensible or even appropriate mix.
My old Pappy's philosophy is probably looking pretty good right now to Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain. (more…)
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