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| | Christian left - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | It is not specifically Christian (being subscribed to by Buddhists, Hindus, and members of other religions), but uses arguments broadly similar to those used by Christian leftists. | | | In the United States, members of the Christian Left come from a spectrum of denominations: Peace churches, elements of the Protestant mainline churches, and Roman Catholicism. | | | Many such people assert that their left-wing views derive directly from their Christian faith, and some cite Jesus as "the first socialist". |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_left
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| | TAP: Vol 15, Iss. 4. Reaching to the Choir. Ayelish McGarvey. |
| | A born-again Christian and an evangelical himself, Carter is arguably one of the most religious presidents in recent history; he still teaches a Sunday school class at his Baptist church in Plains, Georgia. | | | As a Christian, Johnson believes that people must work to protect God's creation; his faith requires that he care for his neighbor and leave this world in better shape than when he entered it. | | | Evangelical Christianity is a mighty force in the personal lives of nearly 25 percent of Americans today. |
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http://www.prospect.org/print/V15/4/mcgarvey-a.html
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| | Townhall.com :: Columns :: Left never tires of Christian bashing by David Limbaugh |
| | If Christians are to honor Christ's Great Commission of spreading the Gospel to all nations, they must engage in the political arena and governance if for no other reason than that the Gospel cannot flourish as well in the absence of political and religious liberty. | | | But a Christian inhibits his Christian walk if he places his religion on just one "shelf" of his life. | | | What the secular Left wants to do is marginalize Christian conservatives by suggesting they are hell-bent on reserving religious liberty (and presumably other types of freedom) only for themselves. |
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http://www.townhall.com/columnists/davidlimbaugh/dl20050428.shtml
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| | Freethought Weekly: To the Christian Left |
| | Someone who professes to be a christian but doesn't appear to care at all about your interpretation of what the bible teaches, or someone who simply doesn't believe in jesus but otherwise has the same views that you have. | | | Bush is still christian, he just has a different interpretation of what the bible says. | | | And again for the atheists, I think that we can agree that religion is what the believers make it. |
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http://freethoughtweekly.blogspot.com/2005/11/to-christian-left.html
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| | A Voice from the Christian Left |
| | As a Christian teaching at a Christian college, wife of a Christian pastor, I am appalled at the irresponsibility, ignorance, and self-righteous posture of those on the “Christian Right” who support these atrocities. | | | The very public nature of Bush’s religiosity ought to be at least a yellow flag for any believer who remembers Jesus’ admonishment to the Pharisees: "Beware of practicing your piety before men in order to be seen by them; for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven” (Matthew 6:1). | | | Alas, a good number among those cheering the Republican takeover are church-going people who sincerely believe that God has sent us a leader whose purposes are God’s own. |
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http://opednews.com/articles/opedne_marilyn__050717_a_voice_from_the_chr.htm
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| | Welcome CrossLeft |
| | Progressive Christians are organizing a movement for social and political change, giving voice to Jesus' ministry of compassion, service, and social justice. | | | Engaging 1000 Christian communities in churches, community groups, and colleges | | | A good example is the Rev. Robb Moore, outgoing Associate Chaplain at the University of Richmond, who decided that Progressive Christianity needed an on-line radio presence. |
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| | Left Behind. A Hollywood Jesus Movie Review |
| | As a Christian and scholar, I don't find the movie useful for the purpose of the gospel. | | | For both Cameron and Noble, the decision to follow God was the most important of their lives and everyday that decision brings them peace and joy. | | | First Irene was into Amway, then Tupperware, and now it's the Rapture of the Saints--the scary last story in the Bible in which Christians are swept to heaven and unbelievers are left behind to endure the Antichrist's Tribulation. |
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http://www.hollywoodjesus.com/left_behind.htm
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| | The Christian Left |
| | Relevant has been a site that has in the past changed my outlook on religion, and has been such a big influence on me. And now to read an article that says universalism and "true" Christianity are "mutually exclusive" shatters everything that seemed to be building up in my faith. | | | An article of relevantmagainze.com the other day really bothered me. It was about a U2 concert, and a quote that Bono said regarding Christianity, Judaism and Islam being the three Abrahmic faiths. | | | Say an evergeen tree is not a sacred Christian object and the world descends into spiritual spasm.” |
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http://www.livejournal.com/community/christianleft
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| | Testimonies of Young People who left Christian Rock |
| | I am in a church where 'Christian rock' has come to be accepted and where we now have dances for the Senior High Youth Group. | | | You see, I believe God designed the world to conform to Christianity, not Christianity to the world. | | | It totally deadened my Christian growth and led to terrible immorality, rebellion, and rejection of God. |
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http://www.av1611.org/crock/crockids.html
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| | LeftBehind.com: The Left Behind Book Series - Jerry Jenkins & Tim LaHaye - Home |
| | Readers share their most difficult prayers and the way God met them in their times of need. | | | You'll also find Bible studies, questions about prophecy, and a lot of community building and support, along with prayer requests and general chatter among friends. | | | The authors also receive letters from those who were led to Christ because they read the books. |
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http://www.leftbehind.com
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| | peacefile » Blog Archive » CounterPunch Readers on Christian Left |
| | While I agree that Christian Zionists and other Fascists for Jesus deserve a real thumping, there are groups, like CMEP, and pastors like Jim Wallis of Sojourners, who are making (at least) a dent in the insanity, and doing so in a manner that jives with what they believe. | | | The great Christian believer (and questioner), Hermann Hesse, said in his book, “Demian”, that “…we create gods, and they bless us.&; We make up friends to hold our hand in the terrifying icy impersonal universe of “black velvet futility” as Kurt Vonnegut put it in “Sirens of Titan”. | | | In this way, either one can speak of faith as a mode of experience or most likely one is not a religious leftist of any sort, whether Christian, Muslim, or Buddhist. |
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http://peacefile.org/wordpress?p=182
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| | Todd Huffman: The Christian Left Is Right About Jesus |
| | Raised Christian but now identifying myself as Unitarian, I have always been struck by the smallness of Jesus - no, not small in any physical or inferior sense, but small in an unassuming sense; small enough to fit inside each one of us and yet be noticed by so few of us. | | | While acknowledging and celebrating the presence of millions of Americans practicing religions other than Christianity, or practicing no religion at all, the simple fact remains that most Americans define themselves as Christian. | | | Protecting separation of Church and State does not require that religion be banished from public discourse. |
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http://www.selvesandothers.org/article9878.html
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| | The Christian Left's Vision (Remember Woody Guthrie?) |
| | The legacy of Christian activism in the political arena is rich with examples of social justice ranging from the Great Awakening to the Social Gospel movement. | | | Thus, the Socialist Party did well in areas where such Pentecostal groups as the Church of Christ enjoyed popular support, representing a primitive Christianity of the oppressed with its roots in the Great Awakening. | | | This right-wing scenario, however, fails to accurately reflect the more complicated role played by religion in American politics. |
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http://hnn.us/articles/13445.html
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| | Adherents.com |
| | "The Christian Catholic Movement (catholic in the sense of universal, a church home for all true Christians) was formally organized prior to 1896 by John Alexander Dowie... | | | With six places of worship in the U.S., there is a membership of 2,500. | | | "He [John A. Dowie] called his movement the Christian Catholic Church (it survives as a tiny denomination distinguished among Pentecostals by triune immersion)... |
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http://www.adherents.com/Na/Na_149.html
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| | No Longer Left Behind - Christianity Today Magazine |
| | "Left Behind and The Prayer of Jabez are to Christian publishing what Tiger Woods is to golf," says Bill Anderson, president of CBA (formerly the Christian Booksellers Association). | | | Throughout the first two millennia of Christian history, words on paper have helped sustain the life of the church. | | | It was a book that proclaimed specific positions on a host of complex and often controversial theological issues concerning the ways of God, humanity, and invisible spiritual forces. |
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http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2002/005/1.26.html
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| | The Christian Left's Responsibility by Neil Elliott |
| | The problem isn't that the Left has failed to “get religion,” it's that too many of our churches have stood by silently as neoconservatives ravaged the social and civil infrastructure built to protect the vulnerable. | | | The reigning propaganda system defines for all of us what “religion” is. The hard-right spin of “Christian news” programs, the soothing, insipid grins of electronic pastors, the parade of fabulously successful celebrities and millionaires whose cheery faith carried them through “the hard times” – these are standard fare. | | | We must own – and if necessary, relearn – our church's teachings about the dangers of capitalism, the priority of human labor over profit, the preferential option for the poor, and the incompatibility of warfare with the teaching of Jesus Christ. |
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| | Christian Anarchy (Eller) |
| | I propose, therefore, that the basic distinction between worldly politics and Christian politics lies in two assumptions that are fundamental to the worldly practice but absolutely rejected by the gospel. | | | Worldly politics is built upon pretentious claims of moral superiority--of which the Christian gospel recognizes nary a one. | | | Likewise, both with Jesus' "being not of the world" and Paul's "not being conformed to the world," we read them as counsels to separate ourselves only from the world's bad powers and certainly not from its good ones. |
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http://www.hccentral.com/eller12
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| | Where is the 'Christian left'? ( WOW ) |
| | Because it's those of the Christian right who preach and live biblical values of inclusion, service, humility and sacrifice -- not some politically correct, watered-down, secularized false gospel in which you get to pick and choose the verses you like to fit in your man-centered worldview. | | | Then he will say to those at his left hand, “You that are accursed, depart from me into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels; | | | Where are the people of the Christian left preaching that message? |
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1275945/posts
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| | Religious Left Merchandise : CafePress.com |
| | I am deeply concerned that, to many, Christianity has come to stand for preemptive war, the death penalty, and social Darwinism. | | | Francis once said, “Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.” In our current political climate where an anti-poor, anti-gay, xenophobic right-wing agenda is draped with the cloak of Christianity, we need to use words to change the debate to promote our progressive social justice agenda. | | | I support the separation of Church and Hate |
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http://www.cafepress.com/turn_left
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| | Whosoever Magazine |
| | The Heart of Christianity: Rediscovering a Life of Faith | | | Tonight, I join ranks of those who are angry, because I have watched as the faith I love has been taken over by fundamentalists who claim to speak for Jesus, but whose actions are anything but Christian. | | | The claim of this administration to be Christian is bankrupt. |
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http://www.whosoever.org/v9i4/march.shtml
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| | Greg Moses: King and the Christian Left |
| | And King often expresses that vision in the language of his Christian faith. | | | At the time she said it, in the second chapter of The Second Sex, Beauvoir had three great religions in mind: Christianity, Marxism, and Psychoanalysis. | | | As King once warned bourgeois America that we must not be afraid to say that Du Bois was a Communist, so we might warn the American left: we must not be afraid to remember that King was a Christian. |
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http://www.counterpunch.org/moses01172005.html
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| | Christian Left - a Liberal |
| | The Fundamentalists and the Centrists call the practitioners of modern critical thought on the bible Liberals, people who are not the Christian Left, because this group of people by and large are not Christ-ian believers. | | | We see that the beast has seven heads, but ten crowns. | | | this stands for the denominations that claim to be christian, that most of them actually are, but some of them who claim the crown have no head to put that crown on. |
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http://members.aol.com/dagoi/christianleft.html
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| | Forward: The Radical Christian Left@ HighBeam Research |
| | Adherents to Orthodox religions, whether Judaism or Christianity, are... | | | This task should logically begin with the identification of the enemy. | | | Lately the defense agencies have concentrated their concern and, to a considerable extent, their fire on Christian fundamentalists. |
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http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1:2358160/The+Radical+Christian+Left.html
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| | The Christian Left |
| | This is causing some in the leadership in the Christian Right to fall all over themselves assuring their faithful that she is a faithful, anti-abortion, anti-gay evangelical. | | | This is a paragraph of text that could go in the sidebar. | | | In which case, the Christian Right needs to ask itself, "where are we to go?" The sad fact is that, if they are not in on what would be the biggest political con of the last 200 years, the country club Republicans believe that they have no where to go. |
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http://xianleft.blogspot.com
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| | Home Christian Alliance for Progress |
| | Five things you can do right now to stand up, be counted and join the movement. | | | Please read where the Christian Alliance for Progress stands on contemporary issues, and then join the movement. |
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http://www.christianalliance.org/site/c.bnKIIQNtEoG/b.592941/k.CB7C/Home.htm
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| | NOW with Bill Moyers. Society and Community. The Christian Left? PBS |
| | Some of the most visible groups on the Religious Right include the Christian Coalition of America, Concerned Women for America, the Family Research Council, and the Traditional Values Coalition. | | | The Christian Right was once considered a "noisy but ultimately ineffective political force" until it suffered multiple blows in the 1988 campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, which led to a reinvention of the movement. | | | The first national liberal religious group focusing on partisan political organizing and electoral issues, the CLN committee is mainly made up of Protestant Christians, but includes Catholics and Jews, and hopes to attract Muslim participants as well. |
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http://www.pbs.org/now/society/faithpolitics.html
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| | Christian Music For Kids - steins-music-resources.com |
| | Categories -- Main Menu Bibles Bible Ref. & Studies Books for Everyone Christian Books Ministry & Education Gifts & More Just for Kids Videos Custom Services Contact Us Site Map African... | | | Bibles and Christian books - Books of the Bible Christian Bookstores w | | | Offers Christian books, Bibles, music and kids books online. |
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| | Musings from the Christian Left |
| | It is up to the Christian Left to change this. | | | This is all the more reason to seek a solution from the Christian Left. | | | The job of the Christian Left is to make them wrong by establishing a society that emancipates young people when they become pregnant and provides an education to anyone and everyone to their fullest ability, regardless of their family situation, through both public and private means. |
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http://www.geocities.com/xianleft_michael/abortion.html
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| | Chicago Public Radio - Audio Library: Odyssey |
| | For the last two decades, the Christian right has defined religious politics in America, but liberal Christians were once an influential voice. | | | Kenneth Wald — Political scientist at the University of Florida, director of the Center for Jewish Studies, and author of the book, Religion and Politics in the United States | | | She is at work on a book about representations of Italian-Americans in film |
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| | Christian Left Movement Bibliography |
| | This query is on behalf of a colleague who is not on this list. | | | Does anyone know anything about a Christian left movement in the 1920s that was active in Texas? | | | Rossinow, Doug "The Break-Through to New Life: Christianity and the Emergence of the New Left in Austin, Texas, 1956-1964", American Quarterly, Sept. |
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http://www.h-net.org/~women/bibs/chr.html
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| | FrontPage magazine.com :: The Loony 'Christian' Left by Bruce S. Thornton |
| | FrontPage magazine.com :: The Loony 'Christian' Left by Bruce S. Thornton | | | I have before me a perfect example, a flier put out by something called the Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace, a coalition of "over eighty Southern California religious, civil liberties, and civic organizations." The first few words tip us off about the mentality behind this document: "With impassioned and burning anguish we. |
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http://www.frontpagemag.com/articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=4862
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| | Thrashing Through Cyberspace: The Christian Left |
| | Listed below are links to weblogs that reference The Christian Left: | | | The Christian Right's response, is, of course, laughable: | | | The group cannot, under Internal Revenue Service guidelines, endorse political candidates, and it will have no official ties to the Democratic Party. |
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http://www.benstanfield.com/thrash/2003/11/the_christian_l.html
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