Thank you for sharing this. It is so good to read and so hard for me to read as someone who grew up in a liberal family within a very Evangelical school and community culture. There is so much I can't get my head around of the Christian Republican mindset.
"I didn’t have to wait for Jesus to return to support initiatives and policies that alleviate hunger, poverty, and war: people, I discovered, had been thinking about these issues for hundreds of years and had some really good solutions to giving everyone a better life. " There have always been liberal Christians who align their politics with the gospel teachings of sheltering the poor, feeding the hungry, the last shall be first and the first shall be last, etc. My now 99-year-old grandmother, born and raised in North Carolina, has always been liberal and Presbyterian. She wore an 'old white women for Obama' pin in 2008. Of gay and trans people, she has said, "I don't see why God would make people that way if it weren't okay." Her Presbyterian pastor's child is trans, and this fact is known, accepted, and even celebrated among a congregation of largely elderly White people in North Carolina. I wish liberal Christians were a louder collective voice in our culture.
Thanks, Rachel, for your comment and for sharing this lovely story about your Grandmother. She sounds like the kind of person I want to be when I grow up. :)
Likewise, I appreciate hearing stories of "liberal" Christians who are out there doing what they can to stop hate. Sounds like something Jesus would do. Ha!
Thank you for sharing this. It is so good to read and so hard for me to read as someone who grew up in a liberal family within a very Evangelical school and community culture. There is so much I can't get my head around of the Christian Republican mindset.
"I didn’t have to wait for Jesus to return to support initiatives and policies that alleviate hunger, poverty, and war: people, I discovered, had been thinking about these issues for hundreds of years and had some really good solutions to giving everyone a better life. " There have always been liberal Christians who align their politics with the gospel teachings of sheltering the poor, feeding the hungry, the last shall be first and the first shall be last, etc. My now 99-year-old grandmother, born and raised in North Carolina, has always been liberal and Presbyterian. She wore an 'old white women for Obama' pin in 2008. Of gay and trans people, she has said, "I don't see why God would make people that way if it weren't okay." Her Presbyterian pastor's child is trans, and this fact is known, accepted, and even celebrated among a congregation of largely elderly White people in North Carolina. I wish liberal Christians were a louder collective voice in our culture.
Thanks, Rachel, for your comment and for sharing this lovely story about your Grandmother. She sounds like the kind of person I want to be when I grow up. :)
Likewise, I appreciate hearing stories of "liberal" Christians who are out there doing what they can to stop hate. Sounds like something Jesus would do. Ha!