I just ordered a recent new book by Jim Wallis–haven’t got it yet–called God’s Politics : Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It. Sounds intriguing.

Here’s another quote I like from
The Sacred Romance, by Brent Curtis & John Eldredge
(Thomas Nelson, 1997) pg. 207-208

We were meant to remember together, in community. We need to tell our stories to others and to hear their stories told. We need to help each other with the interpretation of the Larger Story and our own. Our regular times of coming together to worship are intended to be time so of corporate remembrance. “This, God has done,” we say; “this, He will do.” How different Sunday mornings would be if they were marked by a rich retelling of the Sacred Romance in the context of real live. This is a far cry from the fact telling, principle listing, list keeping that characterized much of modern worship.

One of the reasons modern evangelicalism feels so thin is because it is merely modern; there is no connection with the thousands of years of saints who have gone before. Our community of memory must include not only saints from down the street, but also those from down the ages. Let us hear the stories of John and Teresa from last week, but also those of St. John of the Cross and Teresa of Avila … Let us draw from that “great cloud of witnesses” and learn from their journeys, so that our memory may span the story of God’s relationship with His people.

Remembering is not mere nostalgia; it is an act of survival, our way of “watching over our hearts with all diligence.”