Thursday, June 23, 2005
(9:45 AM) | Dave Belcher:
Christian Alliance for Progress
In today's Chicago Tribune I read an article about a "new" "grass-roots organization with plans for a national membership" called the "Christian Alliance for Progress." This is basically Sojourners all over again. Check out their video here.Yes. The Religious Right scares the shit out of me. And there was a time when I would've eaten this up, but this shit kinda scares me--and I don't just eat shit for anybody. I am convinced more than ever that Christians might need to stop talking about politics...this has to be taken a certain way: I don't mean like Maritain that we need to distinguish between two "planes"; I think that those two "planes" (if we can talk about it that way at all!) are already bound up with one another in such a way that a religious person or community is always already a political person or community. Maybe Christians need to stop thinking about how to "reclaim" the faith, or how to be more "public," and think toward a sort of contemporary monasticism. Maybe Christianity in our context cannot be thought apart from a mysticism of dispossession. Just maybe.
