Friday, January 5, 2007

The Other Born-Again President

We can never know the real story about a President's faith. We know only what he does--or refuses to do--in God's name. Voters were unwilling to forgive Gerald Ford for his great act of forgiveness, the unconditional pardon of Richard Nixon. But there was another side to the pardon, the presidency and the 1976 campaign that received much less attention, in part because Ford wanted it that way. The contest between Ford and Jimmy Carter was a battle between two born-again Christians--but only one was willing to run as one...
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A very inspiring article from TIME magazine... not only about the late ex-President Gerald Ford, but also about the man who reached out to him and later, discipled him. Imagine the impact one man had on another man - who would later go on to become the President of the USA in an hour when America was in a serious leadership crisis. His integrity and honesty testified for him, both in office and during a Congressional inquiry regarding his unconditional pardon of his disgraced predecessor, Richard Nixon.

And in comparison to the "public piety" of some US presidents... not that Ford was ashamed to say that he was a Christian, but rather, he refused to use his faith as a means to advance himself politically. Food for thought... especially in America's political atmosphere of today.

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