I’m in my carrel today doing some writing, and geez is it cold in here! My carrel, which is in NU’s library, has only one window. It is about 1 ½ ft. wide and about 5 ½ ft. tall, and the cold comes right through it. BRRRR.
I am going to start a line of thinking today that I’m sure will come up again and again in the upcoming months. I am happy to say that I am experiencing a bit of a renewal in my own spiritual life. I can’t put my finger on it, but it is has something to do with a progressive form of Christian faith that has, for lack of a better term, “heart.”
Jim Wallis, in his new book, The Great Awakening: Reviving Faith and Politics in a Post-Religious Right America, discusses how things have changed since his last book, God’s Politics. In the earlier work, Wallis unpacks historically why the liberals on the left don’t get it, and why the religious right got it wrong. In this follow up book, which is due out soon, he suggests that the climate has shifted—Evangelicals are leaving the Religious Right in pursuit of a faith that has more social activism, and liberals are coming out of the closet about their own religious convictions and spirituality.
I can’t say that I have agreed with everything that Wallis offers, but the trend that he describes makes a lot of sense to me and matches what I and some friends have been talking about in living rooms, coffee shops, and bars (yes, bars too!).
Anyway, I hope to post more about this in future entries… But for now, it’s back to the writing.
Posted by Frank Yamada at January 19, 2008 05:01 PMJim Wallis was on A Daily Show on Tuesday night... it was a good interview, I thought.
Posted by: Susie at January 24, 2008 03:40 PM