Praying for Clean Air

It's no real secret that there is a huge evangelical environmental movement. In the Times today, a Pew fellow noted, "'It's still early in the process,' he said of evangelical involvement in the environmental movement. 'Among rank and file, evangelicals are as environmental as the rest of us. They're in favor of environmental protections, at least in principle.'"
"On the other hand, he added, 'they don't like environmentalists. They associate environmentalists with the Sierra Club and with people who have nontraditional religiosity. Alliance leaders have a real opportunity here, but the impediment is getting over the image of environmentalists.'"

Good point. Maybe if the progressive community can get over itself and start working together, we'd get somewhere. Anywhere. Instead, we have one of the scariest SC nominees in history (ok, in my life. ok, in my adult life.), we're still in Iraq, and instead of debating why over 30 million Americans live below the poverty line, we debate whether or not a small number of women can control their own bodies.

We need strong, strategic, and hard working organizers to turn this country around.

Maybe we should pray for them.