Reading Ashley L. Jackson’s recent testimonial reveals far more about the modern politicization of religious faith than it does about what we would consider the traditional religious conversion. That fact itself is somewhat unusual, as only somewhere between 2,000 and 5,000 Americans convert to the Jewish faith every year. Now, granted, what Ms. Jackson describes are good things, of course (though one wonders, does Ms. Jackson include the unborn in her comment about “the sanctity of life)? Worldly justice is an outworking and effect of religious faith, rather than its warp and woof. “I do think that we are culturally a Christian country, and I call myself a cultural Christian,” he declared .