"For more than 40 years, Cal Thomas had a front row seat to some of
America's most contentious public policy debates. And for more than
four decades, Cal wielded his pen to speak truth to power and to
advance traditional conservative values. Cal's stories and tales
from that front row-as the watchman-are sure to entertain!" -
Former Vice President Mike Pence "This is what I have done-and am
continuing to do-as I seek to serve God first and then my
country."-Cal Thomas Cal Thomas-one of the most popular syndicated
columnists in the country-is America's "Watchman" in the night. In
A Watchman in the Night, Cal Thomas takes the reader on a "road
trip" through over fifty years of journalism and American life,
serving as a "watchman" on culture and politics and seeking to
conform it to a standard that never changes. A watchman "keeps
guard over a building at night, to protect it from fire, vandals,
or thieves." Thomas is a believer that certain values and
principles never change and has critiqued misbehavior and
wrong-headedness by people on "his side" from the start. "If values
and Truth mean anything," Thomas says, "they must be applied
equally. Hypocrisy and heresy cannot be ignored no matter the
source." In the book, Thomas does not stigmatize labels, such as
"conservative" and "religious," because Thomas says: "It allows
people to define me and others by their perception of those labels.
Ask me a question and I will give you my answer. For over fifty
years in journalism, Thomas has offered incisive, humorous and
often corrective commentary to our social, political, and religious
conversations. An early commitment to addressing publicly what he
sees has marked Thomas' entire career. Cal has always called both
parties, both sides of the American political divide, to account,
to take the high road and to honor our civic and religious ideals
with compatible behavior to the very best of our ability. This
increasingly "radical" approach to public life has won him many
friends on both sides of the political aisle, hundreds of thousands
of faithful readers of his columns, and a continuous barrage of
accolades and "hate mail," much of it charming when it is not too
foul to repeat. Cal came to the Christian faith while a young
journalist at a dinner led by Dr. Richard Halverson, Pastor at
Fourth Presbyterian Church in Bethesda, MD, and later, Chaplain of
the United States Senate. This experience informed the rest of
Cal's life as he hosted his own private dinners for members of the
press and members of Congress from both parties leading to deep
friendships with Senator Ted Kennedy and many others, friendships
which became a hallmark of Cal's life despite wide political
differences. For over two decades, Cal has hosted the National
Prayer Breakfast Media Dinner as a continuation of his commitment
to the reality that a relationship with Jesus Christ can change a
person's life and ultimately change a nation, and that things of
such import are best discussed over dinner. The book includes tones
about faith, but focuses on American social, cultural and political
currents. A Watchman in the Night: What I've Seen Over 50 Years
Reporting on America is a living history of our times, of who we
were then and who we are now and who we might become (for better or
worse) in the future, and a remarkable chronicle of modern American
life.
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