Just Faith: Reclaiming Progressive Christianity

Just Faith: Reclaiming Progressive Christianity

by Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons
Just Faith: Reclaiming Progressive Christianity

Just Faith: Reclaiming Progressive Christianity

by Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons

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Overview

According to new research from the Public Religion Research Institute, there are over 35 million consistently progressive Christians in the United States. Majorities of American Christians support reproductive justice and LGBTQ+ rights. Yet they're erased from our public narrative--only mentioned as outliers to the fundamentalist norm.

In Just Faith, progressive Christian activist and writer Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons explains how a strong religious left has accompanied every major progressive advance in our society, and he resurrects the long but forgotten history of progressive Christianity in the United States that can and must link arms with progressive Muslims and Jews to make the moral case for pluralism, human dignity, and the common good. Graves-Fitzsimmons provides a blueprint for this type of resurrection based on his advocacy work at the intersection of religion and American politics. Graves-Fitzsimmons creates a rallying cry for a bold progressive Christianity that unapologetically fights for its values to impact the biggest political battles of our time--from immigration and economic fairness to LGBTQ+ rights and abortion rights--so that progressive Christians will stop lowering their voices when they identify as Christians. "What kind of Christian are you?" they'll be asked. And they'll even be understood when they reply with a smile, "The good kind."


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781506462530
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress, Publishers
Publication date: 09/15/2020
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 240
File size: 4 MB

About the Author

Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons is "on a mission to reclaim religion from political conservatives," according to Teen Vogue. A progressive Christian writer and activist, for almost a decade he has worked in faith-based public policy advocacy. He currently is a fellow in the Faith and Progressive Policy Initiative with the Center for American Progress. And in addition to founding The Resistance Prays, Graves-Fitzsimmons is a frequent commentator on religion and politics for a variety of national news outlets. He holds a master of divinity from Union Theological Seminary, where he was the William Sloane Coffin Scholar in Christian Social Ethics. He lives in Louisville, Kentucky, with his husband, Rev. John Russell Stanger.

Table of Contents

Introduction xi

Part 1 Our Bold Tradition

1 Shall the Fundamentalists Keep Winning? 7

2 The New Deal, Green New Deal, and Christian New Deal 23

3 The "Reverend" in Rev. Dr. King 35

4 Swords into Plowshares 49

5 God's Love Has No Borders 59

6 From Seneca Falls to Selma to Stonewall 65

7 The Religious Roots of "Identity Politics" 75

Part 2 Reclaiming Our Tradition

8 Consistently Progressive Christians-in Large Numbers 89

9 How Conservative Christians Hijacked Our Faith 103

10 What It Means to Raise Your Voice 123

11 Skepticism from Our Fellow Progressive Christians 133

12 Facing the Anti-Religion Left and the Religious Right 153

13 Signs of Progressive Christian Revival 165

14 A Politics of Love Thy Neighbor 175

Acknowledgments 187

Notes 189

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