{"id":454,"date":"2009-03-02T21:52:52","date_gmt":"2009-03-02T21:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/progressiverevival\/2009\/03\/obamas-budget-healthy-mind-bod.html"},"modified":"2009-03-02T21:52:52","modified_gmt":"2009-03-02T21:52:52","slug":"obamas-budget-healthy-mind-bod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/progressiverevival\/2009\/03\/obamas-budget-healthy-mind-bod.html","title":{"rendered":"Obama&#8217;s Budget: Healthy Mind, Body and Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\">I have always have been struck by the YMCA&#8217;s foundational idea &#8211; healthy mind, healthy body, healthy spirit.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>These three foci were meant to be integrated to provide the underpinning of a potent and moral life.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Mind, body and spirit were understood by a century of Christians, as well as the broader American society, as essential elements of a whole and holistic person. <\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"3\"><font color=\"#000000\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Barack Obama has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/2009\/02\/27\/business\/27policy.php\">presented his budget<\/a> for congressional approval. In it he has offered us a new trinity of core strengths which mirrors the YMCA ideal: Education, Health Care, and Energy.<span>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span>Not to put too fine of a point on it &#8211; Mind=Education; Health=Healthcare; and Energy=Spirit (ok, this last one is not perfect, but energy, like spirit, is the power that keeps the body and mind animate and alive).<span>&nbsp; <\/span><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"3\"><font color=\"#000000\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Christians a century ago identified mind, body, and spirit as the key for all other efforts in living a Christian life and now our President is putting them forward as the way to prepare America for the next century. A healthy education system produces talented young people who will have the technical ability and historical awareness to lead in both domestic and international issues. <span>&nbsp;<\/span>Health care reform makes our people strong with preventive efforts, and makes Americans financially secure and avoid bankruptcy because of sickness.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Green energy liberates us from foreign sources of oil as well as keeping our earth safe.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>I applaud our president for choosing these three areas from which all of our other national priorities emanate.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Each one of these areas provides for an invigorated and refocused work force and job creation.<span>&nbsp; <\/span><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"3\"><font color=\"#000000\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\">For the last decade we have had two national priorities &#8211; military (including mercenaries such as Blackwater) and Wall Street.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>While a strong defense and a solvent financial system are crucial for our nation &#8211; war and money are not values upon which we should rebuild our country.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Let&#8217;s go back to the YMCA and produce an American nation with healthy, mind, bodies and spirits.<span>&nbsp; <\/span><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have always have been struck by the YMCA&#8217;s foundational idea &#8211; healthy mind, healthy body, healthy spirit.&nbsp; These three foci were meant to be integrated to provide the underpinning of a potent and moral life.&nbsp; Mind, body and spirit were understood by a century of Christians, as well as the broader American society, as&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Obama&#039;s Budget: Healthy Mind, Body and Spirit - Progressive Revival<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/progressiverevival\/2009\/03\/obamas-budget-healthy-mind-bod.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Obama&#039;s Budget: Healthy Mind, Body and Spirit - Progressive Revival\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I have always have been struck by the YMCA&#8217;s foundational idea &#8211; 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Paul B. Raushenbush is the moderator of the Progressive Revival blog and the Associate Dean of Religious Life at Princeton University. .An ordained American Baptist minister, Rev. Raushenbush speaks and preaches at colleges, churches and institutes around the country including the College of Preachers at the National Cathedral in Washington D.C., The Chautauqua Institute in upstate New York, and the New America Foundation. Rev. Raushenbush has served at Seattle First Baptist Church, the Presbyterian Chaplaincy at Columbia University and as College and Young Adult Minister at The Riverside Church in New York City. He has appeared on ABC World News Tonight and is a repeated guest on CNN. He has been quoted in The New York Times and The Washington Post and is a contributing editor for Beliefnet.com. His first book, Teen Spirit: One World, Many Faiths (HCI) was released in the Fall of 2004. 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