Ekklesia is reporting on the letter sent from the Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to US President George W Bush this week and rejected by the US administration.

Iranian president asks Bush, what would Jesus do? - The White House has publicly dismissed an extraordinary letter from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad which challenges President George W. Bush’s attachment to Christian values by time-and-again asking how his warlike actions square up with the teachings of Jesus. [Ekklesia News]

This is the fundamental challenge to the US presidency - how is it possible to profess a world view drawn from a religion centred on a man who taught peace, love of enemies and suffering without retaliation, and act as a national executive in a way that is in line with that world view, in terms of both domestic and foreign policy? In the case of the current US adminstration, there seems to be something of a divergence between stated beliefs and felt experience.

You can read the full text of the Ahmadinejad letter in PDF format (75k) on the BBC News Online website.