The Evangelical church in the US suffers from a lack of separation of church and state of mind.
Pastor Jim
Tag: separation of church and state
Presidential Lucky Charm

Posted Halloween on the eve of the 2020 Presidential election.
Separation of Church and Hate
The tragedy of the US church is that the Bride of Christ climbed into bed with a sitting President then smoked the cigarette of hate.
Sunday School Party Animals
My Texan Sunday School teacher was a Democrat who managed to work the Party’s platform into of every lesson to captive Baptist seminarians. Democrats ruled Texas for 100 years, voting last for Jimmy Carter in 1976. After all, “Jesus rode into Jerusalem, not on an elephant, but a donkey!” Another ancient and frequent visitor was an old geezer member of the “Temperance Movement,” spouting the evils of any alcohol. Looking back, I wish I would have listened more to the geezer but found a another Sunday class. You may say, “Jim, God could still use that teacher.” Yes, God even used the jawbone of an ass to slay the Philistines. Ergo, I know, Samson was a proto-Democrat? Don’t get me started.


I arrived in seminary in January of 1981, with the Democrats stinging from their defeat to Ronald Reagan. As I consider separation of church and state, I remember my old teacher and his taking liberty to mold young seminarians in the ideal that God was a Southern Democrat.
Republicans and Democrats need not worship together like the feuding Hatfields and the McCoys. Let us beat our political swords into bowls to catch the new rain of God’s Spirit to a thirsty world. In this we can find common ground.
-Pastor Jim
Religious Freedom … from Government
The root of religious freedom burrows deep and free from Government and its control of religion
Pastor Jim
Rhode Island was founded by those who rejected a church model that mixed in King and Government controls. “Williams felt that the religion he practiced must be free from any influence of the Church of England and the English king.”