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In A Watchman in the Night<\/span>, Cal Thomas takes the reader on a \u201croad trip\u201d through over fifty years of journalism and American life, serving as a \u201cwatchman\u201d on culture and politics and seeking to conform it to a standard that never changes.<\/p>\n

A watchman \u201ckeeps guard over a building at night, to protect it from fire, vandals, or thieves.\u201d Thomas is a believer that certain values and principles never change and has critiqued misbehavior and wrong-headedness by people on \u201chis side\u201d from the start. \u201cIf values and Truth mean anything,\u201d Thomas says, \u201cthey must be applied equally. Hypocrisy and heresy cannot be ignored no matter the source.\u201d In the book, Thomas does not stigmatize labels, such as \u201cconservative\u201d and \u201creligious,\u201d because Thomas says: \u201cIt allows people to define me and others by their perception of those labels. Ask me a question and I will give you my answer.<\/p>\n

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\u2019 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 \u201cradical\u201d 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 \u201chate mail,\u201d much of it charming when it is not too foul to repeat.<\/p>\n

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\u2019s 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\u2019s 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\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

A Watchman in the Night: What I\u2019ve Seen Over 50 Years Reporting on America<\/span> 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.<\/p>\n

Hardcover, 330 pages.\u00a0 REGULAR PRICE $30<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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