Home School Heartbeat Radio Program

How can I add civic responsibilities to my long list of to-dos? Find some answers as Mike Farris interviews author Ken Connor, on today's Home School Heartbeat.

Michael Farris:
All the time—and energy—saving devices of the 20th and 21st centuries seem to have made us busier than ever before. And for homeschooling parents, who've added teaching their children to the already-long list of church, job, family, and community commitments, many may feel they simply cannot invest any more time in anything else. Ken, what do you tell people when you talk to them about their duty to be involved in civic activities in light of all these other responsibilities?

Ken Connor:
Mike, I would say simply they can't afford not to be. The great philosopher and statesman Edmund Burke rightly said, "All that's necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." He also made the observation that the fate of good men—today he'd say the fate of good men and women—who refuse to get involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men. Christians have a civic responsibility and a spiritual obligation to be engaged in the life of their nation. It's through the nation's government that we find justice being administered. Either we're taking care of the poor and the weak, the oppressed, or we're not. Either we're according them fair justice, or we're not. And I believe that Christians have an affirmative obligation to be involved in seeing that we are living up to God's standard of justice.

Mike:
It's always right to call people to the standards of the word of God. Thank you, Ken. I'm Mike Farris.