"'Religious left' emerging as U.S. political force in Trump era"

[Htom Sirveaux]

By Scott Malone
Since President Donald Trump's election, monthly lectures on social justice at the 600-seat Gothic chapel of New York's Union Theological Seminary have been filled to capacity with crowds three times what they usually draw.

In January, the 181-year-old Upper Manhattan graduate school, whose architecture evokes London's Westminster Abbey, turned away about 1,000 people from a lecture on mass incarceration. In the nine years that Reverend Serene Jones has served as its president, she has never seen such crowds.

"The election of Trump has been a clarion call to progressives in the Protestant and Catholic churches in America to move out of a place of primarily professing progressive policies to really taking action," she said.

Although not as powerful as the religious right, which has been credited with helping elect Republican presidents and boasts well-known leaders such as Christian Broadcasting Network founder Pat Robertson, the "religious left" is now slowly coming together as a force in U.S. politics.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-religion-idUSKBN16Y114

This seems to be part of a broader trend of liberal organizations across the board receiving heavier support out of fear of Trump. These congregations are practicing what is almost a whole different religion from conservatives (white evangelicals gave 80% of their vote to Trump, according to exit polls), given the initiatives they are supporting.

[bettyellen]

1. The Interfaith Alliance is a great group advocating for separation of church and state as well as

Compassionate policy

[Htom Sirveaux]

2. I like to listen to their "State of Belief" podcast.

State of Belief with Rev. Welton Gaddy

[Qutzupalotl]

3. also check to The Christian Left on Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/TheChristianLeft/?hc_ref=NEWSFEED&fref=nf

[gopiscrap]

4. Excellent