Sheen: Appealing to almighty God

In the Bruderhof magazine, an "interview with actor Martin Sheen":www.bruderhof.com/articles/sheen.htm?source=DailyDig. It's a profile that focuses not only on his acting fame or activist causes but on his religious faith and how it underpins the rest of his life. Read, for instance, Sheen on civil disobedience: bq. It is one of the only tools that is available to us where you can express a deeply personal, deeply moral opinion and be held accountable. You have to be prepared for the consequences. I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great effect on the person who chooses to do it. Sheen's radical Catholic faith is not a superficial confession that provides him with a place to go on Sunday morning, and it's not passive identity from which to do political organizing. Rather, it's a relationship with God and truth that demands witness and sacrifice and suffering. It's the faith of someone who has personally gone through the depths of spiritual hedonism, and who has watched his country become the "most confused, warped, addicted society," and who has found only God left standing: bq. God has not abandoned us. I don't know what other force to appeal to other than almighty God, I really don't. I could quote him for hours, but read the interview.