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How the "Moral Values" Debate Divides America and How to Move Forward Together
Viking
September 2006
On Sale: September 19, 2006
256 pages
ISBN: 0670037877
EAN: 9780670037872
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Political
A former U.S. senator and ordained Episcopal priest
examines the controversial intersection of faith and
politics in America
As a former three-term
Republican U.S. senator from Missouri and an ordained
Episcopal priest, John C. Danforth has watched the changes
in his party and the church with growing alarm. After
penning two op-eds for The New York Times criticizing
the right for its focus on wedge issues—abortion, stem-cell
research, gay marriage, the Schiavo case, the public display
of religion—that drive people apart, he speaks out again to
call for a change. “The Republican Party has been taken
over by something that it’s not,” Danforth says. “People do
not want a sectarian political party, including a lot of
people who are traditional Republicans.” In Faith and
Politics, Danforth provides suggestions for moving
toward a more secular Republican party that inspires trust
in the people of the United States. Based on years of hard-
won political experience and a life of religious service, he
calls for Christians to look to the Bible and Christian
teachings for ways in which they can practice their faith
day to day and turn the country’s focus to a common ground
once more. As a respected former senator, special
envoy for peace in Sudan, priest, as an author, Senator
Danforth is uniquely qualified to call for the change we so
desperately need. He writes openly about his 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.
From the Back Cover
Advance Praise:
"John Danforth was a
Republican senator and is an Episcopal priest, and he is
deeply disturbed by his party's engagement with religion. He
knows whereof he speaks in this meditation about the
contested terrain where politics and religion
intersect."
-George F. Will
"Heed the
call of this certain trumpet! No one speaks with more
clarity, honesty or sincerity than my old friend Jack
Danforth. When things would get rough in the U.S. Senate, he
was the guy we would send off to negotiate our way out of
the tough problems with the troops on the other side of the
aisle. Heed this thoughtful and provocative message. He
always gave his very best. He again does so here."
-Alan Simpson, served as Senator from Wyoming
1979-1997
"With passion, clarity, and common
sense, John Danforth has given us a great gift: a lucid,
powerful book that is at once reflective and instructive. By
candidly writing about his own unusual pilgrimage through
what Roger Williams called 'the wilderness of the world and
the garden of the church,' Danforth--priest and
politician--sheds light on the complexities and ambiguities
of religion and politics. Jesus once told his followers that
'in this world ye shall have tribulation, but be of good
cheer,' and, reading Danforth, one is heartened anew that if
we all conduct ourselves with humility and a sense of
history, we shall find fresh cause to be of good cheer as we
face the storms of the present."
-Jon Meacham,
managing editor of Newsweek and author of American
Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a
Nation
"This stirring book--part political
memoir, part sermon, part moral plea--reminds us again why
the remarkable Jack Danforth has become one of the most
respected voices in American political life. His
thoughtfulness, deep wisdom, and simple decency radiate from
every page, and leave one at the end with rare hope that
through commitment, faith and politics can ultimately
enrich, and not corrupt, one another."
-Harold Hongju
Koh, Dean, Yale Law School
"Danforth's is a
welcome voice of reason and moderation during a time of
divisive and polarizing rhetoric. As priest and politician
he ably sets forth the deeper truths of the Christian
tradition with clarity and compassion and applies them to
the issues of our time."
-Presiding Bishop Frank
Griswold, Episcopal Church
About the Author
John C. Danforth is an ordained Episcopal priest,
former three-term U.S. senator (R- MO), and former U.S.
ambassador to the United Nations. In 2001, President Bush
appointed Danforth as special envoy for peace in Sudan,
where he worked to broker a peace agreement that, in 2005,
ultimately ended the twenty-year civil war.
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