Beautifully said, Diana!

My friend Diana Butler Bass gives a needed analysis of recent speeches by our president and former vice president. She hits the nail smack on the head.

Diana is right: last year we weren't just choosing a president: we were choosing between "dueling visions of America." I believe there are dueling visions of Christian faith at play these days as well ... a theme which will be at the heart of my next book, "A New Kind of Christianity: Ten Questions That are Transforming the Faith." I just completed another front-to-back edit on the manuscript (slated to come out in March 2010), and I feel great - and grateful to God - about how the book has taken shape.

With Diana's "dueling visions" in mind, I keep thinking about all the Biblical passages that speak of two choices, two roads, two masters, two ways ... We are all making our individual choices day by day, and those choices compound into the direction of our congregations, denominations, nations, civilizations, and world.