Apr 27 2005
Social Action
I’m feeling rather politically motivated these days and I’m not sure why. I think it’s a good thing to be motivated to work for the positive in a world overwhelmed with the negative. However, the more that I think about what I could be doing (and subsequently what I’m NOT currently doing), I find that by listening to those who have been and/or are NOW engaged in social action helps me get motivated to actually do something in this world in which I live. We’re supposed to be helping God enact the Kingdom of God in the earth, so why are we so passive and so eager to let it go to waste? Granted, conservative evangelical Christians are EAGER to “reform” America and help it “return” to the country’s “Christian” roots, but they want to do so at the expense of the REST of the world and at the expense of the environment, animals, minorities, lower classes, and other who are less privileged. Paraphrasing Jim Wallis, “When did God become rich, white, and American?”
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