Richard Land, president of the ethics and religious liberty commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, says Wallis is essentially a compromise that the Democrats turn to.

Below in the quote is the start of an email I recieved from SojoMail today. When I looked just now at the link below (Amazon’s Best Seller List) , they had moved up to number 2. Great! Amazon.com: Top Sellers Earlier this week, we asked our loyal SojoMail readers to take a different kind of action – to help make Continue Reading

So many theological/political arguments pose a false dichotomy: that it is not the job of Government to care for the poor, to seek justice, to provide safety nets. Curiously, many of the same people who suggest this are also involved with Churches who do none of this either. So who is left to provide the care; the safety nets, the Continue Reading

God’s Politics: A Better Option, Sojourners Magazine/February 2005 The following three “political options” are described by Wallis in his article God’s Politics: A Better Option, are the ones we see “out there”, listed by the media, and by political pundits, but which limit and polarize the debate, and have prompted Wallis and Sojourners to start a movement to “Take Back Continue Reading

The Common Good is best realized via some basic “uncommon ethics”, which is Biblically based. Wallis articulates a Biblical vision which is way beyond the narrow appropriations of select Scriptures by the Religious Right to butress their causes, while the majority of Scripture is negelcted by omission; “cut out” of the canon of their “Biblical vision” by forcing it into Continue Reading

The complete text of all articles (at least for now) is online I’m not sure if this is going to stay up (they may have put it all online and then will take it down, or they may be experimenting with showing the articles to “registered” users, which is a simple signup procedure. Anyway, I was glad to see the Continue Reading

Wallis, in USA Today, gives some preview of the subject matter in his upcoming book God’s Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It , due out in just days. USATODAY.com Right now, neither party gets the values question right. The Democrats seem uncomfortable with the language of faith and values, preferring in recent decades Continue Reading

MSNBC – Transcript for Nov. 28 Transcript for Nov. 28 GUESTS: Former Gov. Tom Kean, (R-N.J.), Chair, 9-11 Commission; Former Rep. Lee Hamilton, (D-Ind.), Vice Chair, 9-11 Commission; Dr. Jerry Falwell, The Faith and Values Coalition; Dr. Richard Land, President, Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, Southern Baptist Convention; Reverend Al Sharpton, National Action Network; Reverend Jim Wallis, Convener, Call to Continue Reading

Vaughn also indicates that he sees a coming disappointment among the most theocratic of the Religious Right, that this Bush administration actually DOESN’T champion what THEY think he does. He is USING them and incorporating some of their talking points in order to feign alliance, but the Neocons are NOT the bastions of spiritual attentiveness as they have allowed themselves Continue Reading

Good food for thought on the woes of our “Way of Life”; spun by the Bush administration as one of our core values, it is a roundabout way of encouraging irresponsible consumption, which breeds irresponsible plundering other nations to “ensure” our ability to continue to plunder. The Right has swallowed the Bush “science” that “the earrth is going to be Continue Reading

A fellow Chritian found via Technorati links: The Lord, The Blues, and the Art of Being Smooth But those damned Christians came out to “vote their values” and wound up with Bush for four more years. God where will that take us? I trust you. I do. Does this mean that I was wrong to look to extend mercy, grace Continue Reading

The following comment under the GetReligion: And the healing has begun post, puts rather bluntly and may well be counted in the “not conducive to healing” category. But this is where it gets sticky. Is “healing” a matter of muting dissent and “playing nice?” While there is certainly sound advice in truly desiring to approach this in a reconciliatory fashion, Continue Reading

In my post earlier today, I link to this post that KI found via Jesus Politics, and I received a comment from the author of that post, to which I offered a reply. I just went back and re-read that post of his, and felt compelled to coment on this: GetReligion: And the healing has begun From a comment on Continue Reading

Over at Jesus Politics, (I like his “About Me” description: My interest in Jesus goes back to when I was born in Brazil where my parents were Southern Baptist missionaries. Jesus Politics is an anthology of readings and some commentary related to the political influence of Christianity from the Christian Right to the Jesus Left.) links today to the link Continue Reading