Jim Wallis, of Sojourners, shares his thoughts on the role of religion in the recent elections in this San Francisco Chronicle/SFGate interview.
Here is part of Wallis' comments, reflecting on his religious upbringing and his current outlook on religion and politics:
They basically said that Christianity has nothing to do with racism - "that's political, and our faith is personal." And that's the night that I left, when they told me that. They had a very privatized [notion of] faith, whereas I thought that the faith I was taught as a kid was for the world, not just for our inner lives, not just for our relationship with God. The kingdom of God breaks into the world and can change everything - spiritually, personally, socially, economically, and politically.
I came back to [Christianity] after many years in the civil rights and anti-war movements. I didn't have words to go around that then, but I do now, and they would be that God is personal but never private. And so my faith is very personal, but it's also public.
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