Hijacked: Responding to the Partisan Church Divide By Mike
Slaughter and Charles E. Gutenson, with Robert P. Jones  It is a
time of sharp division and inflexible opinion in America. Those
who know they are right are arrayed against those they are
certain are wrong, and the opportunity for dialogue seems to
have slipped away somewhere during the last decade. Whether we
describe the battle as being between Red States and Blue States,
liberals and conservatives, religious and secular, or true
theology and false theology, true believers on either side are
convinced that they are engaged in a battle for America's soul.
While Christians ought to be on the forefront of conversation
and reconciliation, you don't have to look any further than
today's newspaper to know that religion is also polarizing us,
especially at the intersection of religious faith and political
issues. As Mike Slaughter points out in one of his sections of
the new book Hijacked, when congregants begin to associate
certain political stances with