Nathan Key

When I was at church on Sunday, Dr. Joel Hunter reminded us that through Joseph's interpretations, Egypt undertook one of the largest social welfare endeavors: a great effort to put away food so that its own people and the people of the surrounding countries would not starve during the days of famine.

Dr. Hunter is rarely political, so it was a really interesting moment. And as he pointed out that when we assume that governments can never be right and never do good for their people- I realized that it would be a good idea not to get caught in a "never" or "always" mentality. And I probably also need to go back and re-read the latter part of Genesis with that lens in mind.

As a fairly libertarian-but-Christian individual, I have to say that it was one of the shortest defenses of government I've ever heard and probably the most provocative (in a good, thoughtful, and really "check your resolve against the scripture narrative" moments). I'm not going to jump ship from the limited government camp- but I'm going to think more about what governments can do to be "good."