I am not of the Anabaptist tradition, but have always admired the Mennonite commitment to peace and justice, even as I hedge through life in the main line. And I doubt whether there are any groups who have been as strong on the separation of church and state as they have been.
I recently saw this post on an Anabaptist blog from somebody called DAVIDC which was posted the day after President Obama’s inauguration.
It is a great oversimplification for me to put it this way, but DAVIDC seems to say that, although the inauguration was indeed a turning point, that the state is still the state. He notes with some apprehension that with the changing of the guard that many “will start to put our faith in the ideals of the state and our hope in its progress.”
He sums his own post up with “In this time of celebration, may we not forget that the state is still the state. And we are still called to be the church.”
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