Joyce Hollyday ( aformer Sojourner community member) writes in the Atlanta Journal Constitution.

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Some of us Christians in America don’t see how you can follow Jesus and exclude some of God’s children from the circle of grace. We don’t understand how you can care for the poor and gut the programs that sustain them. We don’t see how you can claim the label “pro life” and ardently support the death penalty and war. We don’t know how you can love your enemies and bomb them.
For us, there is far more to “moral values” than most current commentary acknowledges. For us, following Jesus means we are called to mirror his compassion for the poor, his inclusion of the marginalized, his pursuit of peace and his proclamations of justice. Those of us in the United Church of Christ would like to spread that message. It’s a shame that NBC and CBS won’t let us be heard.

Rev. Joyce Hollyday, an associate conference minister for the Southeast Conference of the United Church of Christ, is a co-pastor of Circle of Mercy congregation in Asheville, N.C.