Progressive Christians across the country are asking Congress to shed the "light of truth" on Trump.
Progressive Christian leaders are calling for a national day of prayer this Sunday to show support for a fair and open impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump’s dealings with Ukraine.
“This perilous moment calls for bold action from both religious and civic leaders who must put country and the common good over partisanship, the pursuit of truth over lies, and morality and accountability over fear and short-term political calculation,” Taylor said. But the Christians who signed up to support this Sunday’s day of prayer believe that an impeachment inquiry is a moral necessity, according to a letter released Tuesday by Red Letter Christians, a religious movement that is helping to organize the event.
“In this current moment, with the impeachment inquiry, Jesus’s claim that he is the way, the truth and the life is also a call to prophetic holiness, in the sense of both speaking truth to power and demanding that authorities are truthful in their words and actions as they govern,” Heltzel said. Sister Simone Campbell, a Catholic social justice activist known for her work with Nuns on the Bus, told HuffPost that she signed the letter because the Trump administration’s “undermining of truth and civility” shocks her conscience. She said that the president’s “obsession with winning” makes her doubt that he will ever focus on the needs of the American people.
Part of the impetus behind the letter was to counter the idea that all evangelicals are unquestionably loyal to the president. Rev. Laura Sumner Truax, senior pastor of Chicago’s LaSalle Street Church and a self-described “progressive evangelical,” said she’s weary of Trump’s “bragging” about evangelicals’ support and upset that people like Graham and Jeffress are seen as spokespeople for the group.
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