Republocrat: Confessions of a Liberal Conservative, by Carl Trueman

I appreciate professor Trueman's view of political life in America. Being a Brit who now lives here he does bring a good unbiased look at how we Chrisitans have seemed to migrate to just one particular political party. Why do we do that? Because it is the conservative party that most holds to our Theological views. Professor Trueman is challenging that view in his thesis. 

If you love Bill O'Riley and Fox news you are going to be frustrated with Trueman. But I would suggest that you take a deep breath, count to 10 and then ponder what he is saying and decide whether his point of view holds any merit. 

He does take equal shots at MSNBC and what we consider the Liberal Media. So at times you are left to ask, what is he trying to prove. 

For me I think a large task is to help remind us that God has a heart for the poor, the widows and the orphans. The Bible often has views that would probably be more socialist than capitalist. We as Christians need to be more careful how we view the political parties and as Professor Trueman would push us, we need to study, understand the Bible and take a stance on issues rather than on one party or the other. This works itself out in the fact that instead of voting a straight party line you might actually vote for candidates from multiple parties at one election because those individual candidates best reflect your Biblically held views. 

I don't like all that Trueman has to say, but he has helped me to understand abp bit better why many of my much younger colleagues voted differently than me in the last election. 

Let us return to being a people who are well read, understand our Bibles and take direction from the Holy Spirit when it comes to our view of politics and government. 

This book is a very quick read that will actually take you a long time to get through if you stop to really digest what Trueman is saying. You won't necessarily agree with all he says, but you need to seriously give consideration to his thesis. 

Enjoy!