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    Faithful Presence: The Promise and the Peril of Faith in the Public Square
    Faithful Presence: The Promise and the Peril of Faith in the Public Square
    Faithful Presence: The Promise and the Peril of Faith in the Public Square
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    Faithful Presence: The Promise and the Peril of Faith in the Public Square

    Written by Bill Haslam

    Narrated by Bill Haslem

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    Two-term governor of Tennessee Bill Haslam reveals how faith--too often divisive and contentious--can be a redemptive and unifying presence in the public square.

    As a former mayor and governor, Bill Haslam has long been at the center of politics and policy on local, state, and federal levels. And he has consistently been guided by his faith, which influenced his actions on issues ranging from capital punishment to pardons, health care to abortion, welfare to free college tuition. Yet the place of faith in public life has been hotly debated since our nation's founding, and the relationship of church and state remains contentious to this day--and for good reason. Too often, Bill Haslam argues, Christians end up shaping their faith to fit their politics rather than forming their politics to their faith. They seem to forget their calling is to be used by God in service of others rather than to use God to reach their own desires and ends.

    Faithful Presence calls for a different way. Drawing upon his years of public service, Haslam casts a remarkable vision for the redemptive role of faith in politics while examining some of the most complex issues of our time, including:

    • partisanship in our divided era;
    • the most essential character trait for a public servant;
    • how we cannot escape "legislating morality";
    • the answer to perpetual outrage; and
    • how to think about the separation of church and state.

     

    For Christians ready to be salt and light, as well as for those of a different faith or no faith at all, Faithful Presence argues that faith can be a redemptive, healing presence in the public square--as it must be, if our nation is to flourish.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThomas Nelson
    Release dateMay 25, 2021
    ISBN9781400224456
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    Bill Haslam

    Bill Haslam is the former two-term mayor of Knoxville, Tennessee, and former two-term governor of Tennessee, reelected in 2014 with the largest victory margin of any gubernatorial election in Tennessee history. During his tenure, Tennessee became the fastest improving state in the country in K-12 education and the first state to provide free community college or technical school for all of its citizens, in addition to adding 475,000 net new jobs. Haslam serves on the boards of Teach for America and Young Life. In the fall of 2019, Haslam became a visiting professor of political science at Vanderbilt University. He and his wife of thirty-eight years, Crissy, have three children and nine grandchildren.

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      Time well spent and a perspective needed in our present times: A nuanced synthesis of spiritual thought, Biblical teaching and deep political leadership experience, this hard to categorize narrative is written and read in a tone of humility by it’s sincere and extensively arena-seasoned author. It encourages and examines faithful, reasoned and integral ways forward in our deeply blessed yet confusing and divisive era. No matter one’s perspective, reading or listening to it will be thought provoking and edifying. If the approach it encourages is applied, it is hard to think we won’t be better for it.

      (The author of the note above worked in the Governor’s administration)