Watcher’s Lamp shares this piece regarding the recently convened Civil Forum on Reconciliation at Saddleback Church:

“…a disturbing image is forming from Warren’s religious relief-political endeavors. It appears that in this quest for social justice, the reconciliation that is evolving is between the Church and the State.

“…One of the things that typically happens in the course of tyranny and genocide is that the church’s social witness is either sidelined and marginalized or simply subsumed under governmental control. President Kagame said that during the Rwandan genocide, the government and the church “were almost one and the same” (emphasis mine). This severely hampered the church’s ability to act as a critical and mediating institution between the government and its individual citizens.”

Read the rest at Watcher’s Lamp.