Making my way through Joel Hunter's "A New Kind of Conservative" this week. It's a great read for my taste and I offer that as one who agrees with Hunter about as often as I disagree with him. I went into this book thinking it might illuminate a bit more of Hunter's worldview for me, but I'm finding myself with even more questions. In particular, I'm finding it next to impossible to square this book with his overt support for Mike Huckabee in the Presidential race.

Not that I begrudge anyone for supporting whomever they want or agree with or has the best hair ... but the following snippet would seem to stand in stark contrast to Huckabee's call to amend the US Constitution to "God's Standard." That seems to be a bit too reminiscent of what the Pharisees attempted. And like Pastor Boyd, I'm curious what that'd mean for the Second Amendment. Hunter's writing (at least through the first half of the book) is very much of the same thinking that Boyd wrote about in "Myth of a Christian Nation." Maybe I'm in store for an interesting twist in the second half, but there's more than just Hunter's support for one Presidential candidate that has me wondering still about how he fits his worldview into the case he's made thus far.

(pg. 35)

The basic assumption among many evangelicals is that a strong reason that the Jews do not accept Jesus as the Messiah is because He did not bring political change. These are the same evangelicals who, after they have called the Jews ignorant, want Christ to reign politically!

To Hunter's credit, I think he begins to fill in some of the blanks I had from Boyd's book. And as a slight tangent, his sermon this past weekend (like most others) is well worth a listen.

ADD-ON: Here's Joel Hunter on the 2008 elections via PBS' Religion & Ethics program ...