This is great news. I know about Seminarian James Talarico running for Senate in Texas and Pastor Adam Hamilton running for Senate in Kansas, but it turns out there are even more leaders of faith in our Christian communities stepping up to the political plate. (Adam Hamilton was actually my sister’s lead pastor in Kansas City.)
Helping fuel the backlash is the rise of progressive Democrats who “are openly embracing their Christian faith and challenging Christian nationalism’s claim to be the true embodiment of Christianity.” It is about time.
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“I have become convinced that we are indeed experiencing what we so desperately need, a great awakening in our own time,” Paul Raushenbush, the president of Interfaith Alliance, said in his September 19 keynote address for the William M. Johnson Lecture Series at Crescent Hill Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky. “Unlike previous examples of religious revival, our awakening is not attached to a single faith tradition or leader, but rather is a broad stirring inspired by a combination of a radical spirituality of nonviolent resistance, a named moral ethic of loving our neighbor, and driven by a promise of a democracy that can be made a reality by and for the people.”
“A Defining Moment of Religious Pluralism” (by Jen Rubin in “The Contrarian, 28 Sept 2026)
https://www.contrariannews.org/p/a-defining-moment-of-religious-pluralism