John Danforth — Conservative Politics and Moderate Religion

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🗓️ 14 September 2006

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Politics driven by a religious agenda, Danforth says, is true neither to his understanding of Christian faith nor to the traditional values of the Republican party. This veteran politician speaks about the values that have helped him navigate the line between private faith and public life and his current concerns about religion in his own party and in the world.

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0:12.0	I'm Krista Tippett, a former U.S. senator and UN ambassador, a lawyer who is also an
0:20.0	episcopal priest.
0:21.5	John Danforth describes himself as a traditional Republican and a moderate Christian.
0:27.0	He's just published a new book, Faith and Politics.
0:30.2	This hour, we'll hear excerpts from that and revisit my 2005 conversation with John Danforth.
0:36.3	He speaks openly about his concern for the way religion is used in his party and in the
0:41.3	world.
0:42.3	I have political positions.
0:44.3	Hey, you know, I mean, I vote at what 7,000 times you're so in the floor of the Senate,
0:49.9	but there's a difference between having positions on one hand and saying, my position
0:56.2	is God's position, because once you do that, you're necessarily divisive.
1:02.9	And I think that that divisiveness is not worth it for our country.
1:08.9	This is Speaking of Faith, stay with us.
1:11.7	I'm Krista Tippett.
1:13.4	John Danforth is a retired three term senator from Missouri and former ambassador, and he's
1:19.4	also an episcopal priest.
1:22.0	Danforth has emerged as a cautionary religious voice in American political life.
1:27.2	He describes himself as conservative, a traditional Republican, and also as a moderate Christian.
1:33.6	And he's just published a new book on Faith and Politics.
1:37.6	This hour, we'll revisit my 2005 conversation with John Danforth on his practices of faith
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