So well said/written. Read the whole thing if the quotations below grab you, or go read it anyway, to find something else or something additional that speaks to you. I have been so lifted out of many a duldrum and frustration with life in the world by the Biblical and faithful witness and celebration of the Sojourners community. Their magazine is so often a God-send, and so often deeply relevant, like they are now with their issue on “Talking Politics in Church”. Evangelical. Progressive. Biblical.

Take Back the Faith, Sojourners Magazine/September 2004

It’s time to take back our faith in the public square, especially in a time when a more authentic social witness is desperately needed.
When we do, we discover that faith challenges the powers that be to do justice for the poor, instead of preaching a “prosperity gospel” and supporting politicians that further enrich the wealthy. We remember that faith hates violence and tries to reduce it, and exerts a fundamental presumption against war, instead of justifying it in God’s name. We see that faith creates community from racial, class, and gender divisions and prefers international community over nationalist religion, and we see that “God bless America” is found nowhere in the Bible. And we are reminded that faith regards matters such as the sacredness of life and family bonds as so important that they should never be used as ideological symbols or mere political pawns in partisan warfare.

It is precisely because religion takes the problem of evil so seriously that it must always be suspicious of concentrated power—politically and economically—either in totalitarian regimes or in huge multinational corporations, which now have more wealth and power than many governments. It is indeed our theology of evil that makes us strong proponents of both political and economic democracy—not because people are so good, but because they often are not and need clear safeguards and strong systems of checks and balances to avoid the dangerous accumulations of power and wealth.