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RE: Crunchy copout
[Mitch Muncy 02/23 11:44 AM]When I worked at ISI, now some time ago, I met lots of college kids who wanted nothing more than to get a job on Capitol Hill or at a DC policy institute. I used to discourage them, suggesting that they first give serious consideration to returning to their hometowns, where they could, while doing non-“conservative movement” jobs, participate in the renewal of their communities. This, I told them, would be genuinely “conservative.” It was clear that few of them had thought about this.
Having dispensed this pellet of wisdom, I did my best to avoid returning home. What finally (and not after a terribly long time) drew me back to Dallas was that I could see that was where God was leading me. So I ask: Shouldn’t the first consideration for a Crunchy Con be what God wants of him? For many, this could mean returning home, but for others it will not. I don’t think we can presume selfishness even if someone invokes an “economic necessity” argument. Poverty can be one of the ways that God is telling us we need to make a change. Stubborn people like me sometimes have to be reduced to not eating before we’ll think seriously about our vocations.
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