Melinda Pillsbury-Foster
Friday, September 1, 2006 4 pm PDT
This Week's Show
Our Guest: Gregory Johnson
Spiritual Politician, the show that is dedicated to helping all of us blend politics and our spiritual practices, will host Gregory Johnson, a life long activist an the editor of The Small House Society, the Spiritual Politician will confront the issues. The show airs Friday, September 1, 2006 at 4 PM PDT
On the Spiritual Politician host Melinda Pillsbury-Foster and Gregory Johnson will discuss one of his several interests that is, the fusion of Judaism with Christianity. The fusion viewpoint, says, Johnson, “represents what many consider to be a restoration of the authentic first century Christian Church which was characterized by a uniting of Jew and Gentile.” Can a fusion perspective then help alleviate the conflicts that we confront today?
Gregory Johnson is the founder and Director of Resources for Life, an outreach and public interest organization based in Iowa City.
Gregory's home, the Mobile Hermitage, has has received national media attention. The Mobile Hermitage is a low energy small home that was designed and built by Jay Shafer of the Tumbleweed Tiny House Company.
A fusion of spiritual viewpoints could be a significant means for building acceptance that allows us to see the faith path of others as another lens through which to view the sacred and so draw us closer together. Americans and people throughout the world need that. If government is to be the tool we all use to manage those things we share then shouldn't government be a fusion itself?
On the Spiritual Politician the question of how to bring politics and government into alignment with the relationship we are mandated by Christ to have with each other is always in order. How can the American electoral system fulfill the charge Christ left with us. That charge was then and remains today that we are one in Christ and are to treat each other as brothers and sisters, despite our differences.
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What the Show is about and being a Spiritual Politician
Bringing government into alignment with the Lessons of Jesus:
The focus of our show is how to bring government into alignment with truth of our spiritual nature. So
America started with the idea we are all, inherently free. We are free to choose, free to live, to breath, and to live our lives as we see fit. Government does not own us; government is just a contractor, providing service.
That framework is in alignment with the spiritual truth that each of us connects to God directly, needing no agency as an intermediary. To be free is to be free in the spirit ans so in the flesh that temporarily holds the spirit.
When Thomas Jefferson said we were all possessed of inherent rights, existing before government he was extending a spiritual truth into a civic form. It is that Mission Statement from the Declaration of Independence we need to keep in mind.
Because we are free and reject, as did Christ, the use of deceit, manipulation or violence we need to be conscious about our relationships with others and find ways to grow into the sense of connection and community that makes us One in Him.
This is especially true for Christians but it is true for everyone else as well.
Nearly every major spiritual viewpoint enunciates the idea that we are connected to each other and should be good to each other. Christians just have an even more exacting mission. Christians are to love every one, treating them as they would Jesus.
Jesus was very clear about how we were to treat others. He did not say that it was alright to be abusive, deceitful, and violent if we used government as our tool and agent. There was no exception, He wanted all of our hearts, minds and souls. Christ did not lay out any plan of government, but left it to the conscience of the individual, the same way He connects to each of us.
We are Americans but we are also members of a human family that connects us to something truly wonderful and immense.
So our job here at the Spiritual Politician is to look at Government as a human tool we use every day. We need to consider if government is working in a way that speaks that common understanding about our connections to each other and, if it is not, we need to change it.
Americans have had many successes over the last 231 years since our founding and, learning from both mistakes and successes we can consider that question. So here at the Spiritual Politician we look at the truth behind of rhetoric.
Given what is going on today in Government what we may decide to do it reboot the whole system.
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