The place to begin to understand the politics of God is with the prophets, the ancient moral articulators in the Scriptures who claimed to speak in “the name of the Lord.” What were there subjects? Quite secular topics really - land, labor, capital, wages, debt, taxes, equity, fairness, courts, prisons, immigrants, other races and peoples, economic divisions, social justice, war, and peace-the stuff of politics…And whom were the prophets usually speaking for? Most often, the dispossessed, widows and orphans (read: poor single moms), the hungry, the homeless, the helpless, the least, last and lost.
-Jim Wallis from his New York Times Bestseller, God's Politics: Why the Right Gets it Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get it.
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