The Politics of Justice
“Can unjust leaders claim that God is on their side— leaders whose decrees permit injustice? They gang up against the righteous and condemn the innocent to death.” Psalms 94:20-21 NLT “For I believe the crisis in the U.S. church has almost nothing to do with being liberal or conservative; it has everything to do with giving up on the faith and discipline of our Christian baptism and settling for a common, generic U.S. identity that is part patriotism, part consumerism, part violence, and part affluence.” — Walter Brueggeman in A Way Other Than Our Own The last year has revealed some very interesting things about the institutional church and the theological tribe within Christianity known as evangelicals. Evangelicalism, which was known as a theological distinction within Protestantism, now is known more for the political ideologies in which it has become associated with over the past 30 years. So, those outside of Evangelicalism, understand its affiliatio...