Buyblue President Raven Brooks and I just came from a Democracy for America event with DFA Chairman Jim Dean. One of the guests pointed out that the Right has fervent evangelicals and we seem to have no presence in the churches, let alone ardent workers in the fields of the lord.
I am from the Civil Rights movement, and remarked that I wouldn't tell the Southern Christian Leadership Conference we progressives had no presence in the Christian churches. But I do take her point and I remember that my personal commitment to social justice was first tempered in the black churches' unbelievably staunch, brave, bloodied fights for jobs and the right to vote.
We need to reach out to the congregations in our communities and ask our spiritual leaders to go up on the mountain, get the truth, bring back the vision, and lead us once again. Aint going to let nobody turn me round, turn me round ..