6 Principles for Christian Political Engagement

I don't know how I haven't come across it before but the Lausanne publication, Global Analysis, looks to be a very useful Evangelical publication with high quality content you wont find anywhere else. I mustn't spend my day trawling through back issues, as tempting as that may be, but may I recommend to you a helpful article on Christians facing political crisis in Brazil over the possibly-corrupt impeachment of a possibly-corrupt president? The six principles, which are enlarged upon in detail in the article, are equally applicable to other contexts, they are:

1. Knowing how to behave is more important than knowing what position to adopt
2. Cultivate Christian political reticence
3. Distinguish the different debates
4. Avoid dichotomous thinking and recognize the many possible positions
5. Go beyond simplistic moralism in the Christian perspective on corruption
6. Distinguish between an ideal and the carrier of that ideal

I recommend reading the whole thing.