Librarian
April 26th, 2007, 07:11 PM
Has anyone read it? Here is the summary:
God’s Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It (HarperCollins, 2005)
Since when did believing in God and having moral values make you pro-war, pro-rich, and pro-Republican? And since when did promoting and pursuing a progressive social agenda with a concern for economic security, health care, and educational opportunity mean you had to put faith in God aside?
God's Politics offers a clarion call to make both our religious communities and our government more accountable to key values of the prophetic religious tradition - that is, make them pro-justice, pro-peace, pro-environment, pro-equality, pro-consistent ethic of life (beyond single issue voting), and pro-family (without making scapegoats of single mothers or gays and lesbians). These are the values of love and justice, reconciliation, and community that Jesus taught and that are at the core of what many of us believe, Christian or not.
Here is the first chapter for those still interested:
http://sojo.net/special/items/050210_GPch1.pdf
And a biography of the author:
http://sojo.net/index.cfm?action=special.display&item=050111_godspolitics#bio
God’s Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It (HarperCollins, 2005)
Since when did believing in God and having moral values make you pro-war, pro-rich, and pro-Republican? And since when did promoting and pursuing a progressive social agenda with a concern for economic security, health care, and educational opportunity mean you had to put faith in God aside?
God's Politics offers a clarion call to make both our religious communities and our government more accountable to key values of the prophetic religious tradition - that is, make them pro-justice, pro-peace, pro-environment, pro-equality, pro-consistent ethic of life (beyond single issue voting), and pro-family (without making scapegoats of single mothers or gays and lesbians). These are the values of love and justice, reconciliation, and community that Jesus taught and that are at the core of what many of us believe, Christian or not.
Here is the first chapter for those still interested:
http://sojo.net/special/items/050210_GPch1.pdf
And a biography of the author:
http://sojo.net/index.cfm?action=special.display&item=050111_godspolitics#bio