Tom DeLay, the former House majority whip and leader, wasn't called "The Hammer" for nothing. In recent months he's been the best book publicist an author could want, asking me repeatedly to read his friend Norm Mason's The Political Imperative: An Assignment from God (Jebaire, 2011). I finally did, and will argue that its analysis is solid but its final prescription is wrong.
Mason, former chairman of the Texas Christian Coalition, rightly emphasizes the clearest current issue, abortion, and the importance of Christians fighting it politically as well as in other ways. He rightly notes that when an airplane seems headed toward a crash, we'd much rather have a pilot intent on trying to land it than reading a pamphlet picked up at an airport booth, "God's Will for Your Life in an Airline Disaster."
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