King, Isaiah, and the Politics Of Now

"I am convicted by the words of Reverend King, “When religion becomes so involved in a future good ‘over yonder’ that it forgets the present evils over here it is as dry as dust religion and needs to be condemned.”

These aren’t simply public policy issues: care for the poor and the oppressed; the systematic and generational discrimination of white supremacy, male supremacy, and straight supremacy; broken immigration and asylum systems; and a socio-economic system so shattered by corporate greed and deregulation that human dignity has too often become an afterthought if a thought at all. These are issues at the intersection of faith and public policy. These are issues for which we shall all have to soon make decisions — decisions for which we shall all be accountable".