Sarah Posner attends last night's Compassion Forum and finds the proceeds lacking for better moderators:
If FIPL's [Faith in Public Life] purpose is to elevate the broader interfaith agenda beyond the hot-button culture war issues, it would be well-served by sticking with religious leaders posing policy questions to candidates rather than with journalists asking absurd, quasi-theological ones. [Newsweek's Jon] Meacham, for example, asked Clinton if she believed that God wanted her to be president. She wouldn't presume to know, she finally conceded. Meacham asked Obama whether he believed "that God intervenes in history and rewards or punishes people or nations in real time for their behavior?" Obama responded that God's purposes are often too mysterious for him to grasp. Indeed.
Amateur theology? Read the rest and comment here.
--The Editors
