Post on Ann Coulter – June 29

I have posted a piece on Ann Coulter at beliefnet.com. Thanks to David Kuo for the challenge to do so. Our body politic deserves and needs better than the tone approaches like hers raise.

You can see the full post at: http://blog.beliefnet.com/jwalking/2007/06/darrell-bock-takes-on-ann-coul.html

I really think that people need to think through her approach.

It is not a healthy way to engage.

I have posted a piece on Ann Coulter at beliefnet.com. Thanks to David Kuo for the challenge to do so. Our body politic deserves and needs better than the tone approaches like hers raise.

You can see the full post at: http://blog.beliefnet.com/jwalking/2007/06/darrell-bock-takes-on-ann-coul.html

I really think that people need to think through her approach.

It is not a healthy way to engage.

Here is the opening….

Godless Author Needs to Think Again–And So Do We

As a theologian I have been watching with interest for some time the tone of some of our political discourse. In sum, it often resembles what one might expect to hear on an elementary school playground. So maybe some straight talk to five year olds is in order. The only problem is that it is not just the two families that are being invoked but the entire community of our body politic. There is a genuine need for a respectful engagement on the real issues of our time, not a polemicizing, self-promoting, mocking handling of opponents. Nothing has made that more apparent than the “work” and approach of Ann Coulter….

For the rest, go to the URL:

http://blog.beliefnet.com/jwalking/2007/06/darrell-bock-takes-on-ann-coul.html