{"id":43,"date":"2006-09-27T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-27T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godspolitics\/2006\/09\/ron-sider-a-biblically-balance.html"},"modified":"2006-09-27T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-27T12:00:00","slug":"ron-sider-a-biblically-balance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godspolitics\/2006\/09\/ron-sider-a-biblically-balance.html","title":{"rendered":"Ron Sider: A Biblically Balanced Agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-right: 20px;margin-bottom: 10px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sojo.net\/images\/about_us\/portrait_sider.jpg\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/>The consensus evangelical document (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nae.net\/images\/civic_responsibility2.pdf#search=%22for%20the%20health%20of%20the%20nations%22\">For the Health of the Nation: AnEvangelical Call to Civic Responsibility<\/a>)  says that &#8220;faithful evangelical civic engagement must champion a biblically balanced agenda.&#8221; And it then deals with seven areas: religious freedom, family, sanctity of human life, justice for the poor, human rights, peace and creation care. This document refuses to lift out one area to &#8220;value most.&#8221; It says they all are on God&#8217;s heart and therefore central to faithful evangelical civic engagement.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Ron Sider is president of Evangelicals for Social Action.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;padding-bottom:0.25em\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The consensus evangelical document (For the Health of the Nation: AnEvangelical Call to Civic Responsibility) says that &#8220;faithful evangelical civic engagement must champion a biblically balanced agenda.&#8221; And it then deals with seven areas: religious freedom, family, sanctity of human life, justice for the poor, human rights, peace and creation care. 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