This Is the Way
Beyond Politics
by Robin Webber
America is now fully immersed in the sizzling summertime dynamics of its presidential election season. Every four years the political temperature in this country reaches the boiling point as partisan politics fan the flames of "party spirit."
This national spectacle has a wide-ranging global audience due to the reality that the individual who becomes president of the United States becomes the single most influential human being in the world for the next four years.
The stakes are high not only for America, but also for the rest of humanity. Unfortunately, today's partisan feelings seemingly run even higher as American society is basically split right down the middle as to the future course of the oldest of all modern-day republics.
A giant shadow
But was there ever a different time and style, before the coarseness of American politics created a split personality in the national psyche? Was there ever a time when people could basically agree on one man to lead them? Yes, there was, but we have to go back over 200 years to find it.
What was it that allowed the revolutionary Americans to even consider the office of the executive after they had just overthrown a monarchy? The answer comes down to one man and his extraordinary character.
His historical shadow still casts a giant silhouette from coast to coast across this republic. It is his name that dots the capital of his country. It is his monument that towers above all others in a city designed to showcase monuments. It is his name alone among all its presidents that is claimed by one of the 50 states.
Amazingly, it is this one individual and his character, not his party affiliation, that sculpted the job description of an executive office that had not yet been envisioned or implemented in the realm of human history. The office did not shape him. His lifetime values shaped the job description of what has become the most important job in the world. The man's name was George Washington.
Read the full article at www.wnponline.org/wnp/wnp0408/way0408.htm
Related Information on UCG Sites:
Table of Contents that includes "Beyond Politics"
Other Articles by Robin Webber
Washington, George:
- _A Walk In the Snow: Character Counts In a Nation's Leaders
- _A Vision Beyond the Spectacles
- _A Brief History of America at War
- _Great and Durable Consequences
- _A Good Soldier
- _One Nation Under God?
- _A Vision Beyond the Spectacles
- _Why U.S. Population Growth Has Produced Little Joy
- _God: Ruler of the Universe
- _The Eye of a Needle
- _Is the Church the Kingdom?
- _How Is the Kingdom "at Hand'?
- _How You Can Enter the Kingdom
- _Other Names for the Kingdom
- _Is the Kingdom Here Now?
- _Is the Kingdom Within You?
- _Translated Into the Kingdom?
- _The Promise of a Coming Kingdom
- _The Everlasting Kingdom of God
- _The God Family
- _Christ's Parables and the Kingdom
- _Points to Ponder (bsc6)
- _God's Vision for You
- _'Thy Kingdom Come!'
- _The Gospel From Abraham to Paul
- _Why Will Christ Return?
- _The Kingdom of God: The Heart of Christ's Message
- _The Millennium: The Vision That Won't Die
- _Why People Don't Understand the Kingdom of God
- _What's Wrong With Our Governments? 1999
- _Could Jesus Christ Be Elected President?
- _What Is the Gospel Jesus Christ Taught?
- _Your Destiny -- Teacher, Administrator?
- _The Kingdom of Heaven
- _God: Ruler of the Universe
Key Subjects Index
General Topics Index
Biblical References Index
Good News Magazine Index
Booklets and All Literature Index
Home Page of this site