A few years ago, a young union organizer asked me, “Which are the good churches and which are the bad ones?” He wanted a quick (and intellectually easy) way to understand which faith bodies would be the most supportive of workers’ rights. “It’s not that simple,” I told him. His question was like asking, “Which are the good unions and… return to article
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Reader Comments (6)Page 1 of 1 pagesWallis is an interesting person, and hardly as much an oddity as the media would have us believe. There are many evangelical Christians who do not belong to the Christian Right, as it is mislabled.
It is also worth noting that when Republicans are questioned in exit polls, their religious affiliation is always covered. Not so with Democratic voters, so it is impossible to say how many evangelicals may be voting for Obama or even Clinton.
There is a growing movement among evangelicals (I am not one myself) to actually emulate their supposed leader (care about the poor, the enviroment, peace, justice, etc.) instead of the slobbering christianists and Christian Zionists who the media foists upon us all as the true leaders of the church. This movement could benefit us all, regardless of our own faiths or lack thereof, and we should do what we can to encourage its growth.
We need everybody that is willing to help turn things around, and to marginalize, and eventually silence, those who would destroy the world in the name of their hideous god.
Posted by opeluboy on Mar 10, 2008 at 6:01 PM As a Christian woman, 76 years old, I have a big problem with the Christian right (wrong?).
I do not see the life of Jesus or his teachings, in a large number of churches who call for judgment and punishment of many of their own members. Where is our authorization to demand that others have to walk in lockstep with the hierarchy of our own particular church/denomination?
They, who have supported for years, discrimination against people of color, red and yellow, black and white and women, and do not seem to understand his very clear admonishments of how we treat people “other than us”.
Posted by genef96 on Apr 9, 2008 at 10:02 AM A witty child in the dreamland.
There’s a witty
child where
a beautiful dreamland
presents the profile
of a delicate hedge,
over a feeling, in
the care of a
blackbird; and there’s
also that sunset,
the timid contour
of a glittering flame.Francesco Sinibaldi
Posted by Sinibaldi on Apr 12, 2008 at 2:03 PM I give you the sound…
In the darkness,
and when a soft
wind arrives near
a magic lantern,
you call me
like a glittering eye
in the skill of
a wisdom, you touch
a desire, and then,
in my heart, a delicate
voice discovers a
fate: you claim
the atmosphere, I
give the sound.....Francesco Sinibaldi Italy/Usa
Posted by Sinibaldi on Apr 25, 2008 at 10:44 AM The red carpet of my shoulder.
Early in the
morning, when
gloomy canticles
rejoice in the
sound of the quietness,
I hear a scrupulous
voice on the sun
of a summer, while
a sadness delights
and discovers a care.
Francesco Sinibaldi
Posted by Sinibaldi on Apr 26, 2008 at 2:00 PM I’m lazy.
When the night
comes back
telling a story, I’m
lazy: beautiful
sounds of a primitive
faith appear in
my mind, and even
that arrow describes,
in a moment, the
slippery darkness
of a tender caprice,
there, where a
light fades away......Francesco Sinibaldi
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