The Beatitudes Society develops and sustains emerging Christian leaders at seminaries and divinity schools as they build a progressive network for justice, compassion and peace as expressed in the Beatitudes.

Frederica Ghesquiere

Summer 2008 Fellow, The Regeneration Project

Up until this past summer, I had been unaware of the subtle and steady divergence of my values and my faith. It was a stealthy severance; my values seemed justifiably progressive and I could easily claim to be a "different" kind of Christian-- a liberal one, who obviously ascribed to these values because I'm sure Jesus would have felt the same way. I found myself asserting that I was an environmentalist, a feminist, an aspiring pacifist, an (unsatisfied) Democrat, a hater of racism and classism and heterosexism and, oh yes, I'm also a Christian. But how did those identities really connect?

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