In recent years, and in particular since the election of Barack
Obama, the religious conversation in America has been dominated by
calls for progressives to move beyond "partisanship" by reaching
out to evangelicals in order to create a "big tent" on social
issues such as abortion and marriage equality, despite the lack of
evidence that such a strategy can or ever did work. This misguided
notion that we can build a shared political and religious center
has for the most part shut out true progressive voices, allowing a
small conservative minority to control the political and religious
debate in this country, with only the most tepid of moral criticism
from the religious centrists who claim to desire bipartisan
consensus.
In "Changing the Script," Daniel Schultz, one of the leading
progressive religious voices in America today, builds upon the
insights of Old Testament scholar and theologian Walter Brueggemann
to identify five "scripts" that exercise unseen power in our
society: the therapeutic, technological, consumerist, militarist,
and conformist. Confronting each of these scripts and the actions
of both the Right and the Left that have allowed them to take root
in our culture, Schultz voices a perspective that shows what an
authentically progressive and authentically faithful religious
ideal would truly look like.
Daniel Schultz is a pastor in the United Church of Christ and
co-founder of the blog Street Prophets (www.streetprophets.com),
where he writes as "pastordan." He has contributed to many online
sites and publications and is a graduate of the Candler School of
Theology at Emory University.
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