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Re: [pf] Christianity/Progressivism
by Nan Hildreth
04 December 2000 16:09 UTC

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At 09:33 AM 12/3/00 -0800, Julia Grella wrote:
 It bothers me that Christianity has become associated with a right-wing 
>political agenda.  

Call to Renewal provides alternative leadership for evangelical Christians and 
Christians in general.  In Who Speaks for God?  Jim Wallis says Pat Robertson 
and his Christian Coalition does not speak for God and announces new Christian 
leadership, Call to Renewal.   http://web.archive.org/web/20020330231445/http://www.calltorenewal.com/  Wallis says the 
Christian Coalition is not a democractic organization, instead run by 
Robertson. 

Wallis has long been editor of the radical Christian magazine, Sojourners, 
www.sojo.net.   I've been on their email list for six weeks.  Fine folks. 

I've been going to a "doctrinally conservative Christian Church" here for about 
two months and feeling more and more at home there.   At Bible study yesterday 
the preacher said "Gandhi said 'I would have become a Christian, if I had ever 
met any.'"    The preacher explained, "We lost Gandhi by not walking our talk." 
  I loved it.   Any friend of Gandhi's is a friend of mine. 

Besides the world the preacher describes in which folks lived Christian beliefs 
is a transformed, sustainable world.  Fun too. 



Nan Hildreth, Houston  713-864-7108

"A vision of politics must be articulated that clarifies the essential moral 
issues at stake in any political discussion."  "The alternative to the passive 
politics of the status quo is a prophetic politics of personal and social 
transformation.  However, the movement from one to the other will change our 
very understanding of politics."  

Jim Wallis, The Soul of Politics: A Practical and Prophetic Vision for Change, 
1994 http://web.archive.org/web/20020330231445/http://www.sojo.net/