Faith in Action, an Utne blog writes:
The Rev. Anne S. Howard directs the Beatitudes Society, which works with seminarians. In her session, Howard underscored the need to eschew political partisanship—a point echoed in the keynote by Jim Wallis, president of the social-activism organization Sojourners. (Full disclosure: I interned at Sojourners magazine.)
Afterwards, Howard explained to me that the reason to reject the left-right framework is that it’s done little to advance the “social-justice agenda.” Of course, this is the language of the left. But the point isn’t just to dial down the rhetoric to better achieve lefty goals. Howard emphasized theological motivations, “loving our neighbors as ourselves and finding a way to express that in the body politic. That’s different from lining up on either side of the aisle.”
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