What do you think?  Must the Christian voice find a way to be “politically and economically neutral” in order to be a Christian voice?  What would that look like in concrete terms?

The Democratic National Committee pays churches that thwart Bible believing Christians and there are pastors that sign up to thwart anyone who gets in their way.

I think the Christian Right has tried to be political and they say candidates want their vote but otherwise don't want anything to do with them.

With Wikileaks being in the news, I think politics is a waste of time because elected officials are show to be the biggest liars and hypocrites.  Or they will get the military or other non-Christians involved to mess things up for us because in order for politics to work, you have to have Christians involved with society.

In some ways, its counterproductive and wasteful because we should be about the gospel or your friends will go to hell.

Politically and economically neutral is a misrepresentation IMO. The aim isn't to be neutral in those spheres but to be gospel centered. If we're grounded in the gospel of Christ then we'll be neutral in many ways but we won't necessarily always be neutral. We'l have a common approach to life, politics, and economics, and in that sense I suppose we're "neutral" but I'm not sure I want to put too much stock into being neutral. We're deeply in favor of heaven's economics and politics and I have a hard time calling that neutral I guess. Maybe it is though.

I've been pondering this one - in large part because I'm admittedly being slow to grasp what is meant here by neutral.  In the Malesic quote it seems to refer to being open to being equally critical of any potential political or economic (or presumably other) form that dominates a culture.  So, being clear-eyed enough about the elements of society that form pressures on individuals to not only see them but be willing to speak up about them, regardless of the cost?  

I'd have to read more Cavanaugh, Malesic, Westphal, and Kierkegaard  to see where they are coming from and what they are trying to achieve.  But I do have a few comments in general.  I think Christians too often fail to recognize that Church and State are two separate spheres.  I don't mean that in that in a political sense.  I just mean that the State should not be seen as a natural or spiritual extension of the Church.  Thus, I think the 'Christian voice' will have it's greatest effect within the Church itself, rather than within secular society or Government.  Christians are called to personal and communal obedience.  I do not believe we are called to force an unconverted world to look and act, superficially,  just like the Church.  God calls the Church to take care of the poor, and the Church, as individuals and as a group, should seek to do that within the scope of its own powers.  If a Christian businessman is cheating his workers out of their honestly earned wages, then the Church should bring its pressure to bear on  the situation.  If members of the Church are without food or clothing or shelter, the Church should provide the solution, not look to the State to act.  When Christians recognize the call to share their God-given wealth, that's terrific.  But are we really called to share someone else's wealth through government mandated redistribution?  I don't think so.  And I don't think that solution is 'Christian'.  Should both State and Church even be seeking to solve the same problems?  I think so, but the roles of the two should not be confused and blurred.  Does that mean Christians should not seek political power?  No, it just means that they should recognize that there is a huge difference between a just and converted (but essentially non-public) Church community and a just but secular society.  Both will be different and look different.  The tools to achieve the first will not be the tools to achieve the second.  I don't think Christians need to denigrate Capitalism as an economic system for society at large -- I think it best takes into account human nature and that the other systems are incredibly naive.  But we should also recognize what capitalism does NOT do.  It is an economic system, not a moral system.  Does that mean secular governments should look to socialism or some other system that seems more 'just'?  Well, I don't think they should, but if they do want to consider it, it shouldn't be for religious reasons.  The Gospel and the call to obedience (and the accompanying promises) are for the Church, not the World.  

I hope all this wasn't too far off topic.  I wasn't totally sure what you were aiming at.