my thoughts today are about the role of religion in moral action. or the relationship of religion and political action. or perhaps, the relationship between moral action and political action. i think that i am coming to believe in a much more limited government than i used to believe was desirable. i think that social justice does not need to be a result of governmental intervention, and in fact, it is probably more desirable when it isn’t. i think that the private and non-profit sectors are in a position to reinvent themselves as real vehicles for moral action and social change, and that i want to push that envelope.

so i want to separate the religion conversation and the political conversation, but i also think that there is a very real movement right now towards framing the political conversation as a conversation of faith, and issues of morality and politics are difficult to disentangle. our current political climate is not one where faith cannot come into play — the scope of the government is simply too broad.

in this climate, the relationship between liberal faith and liberal politics is not being articulated, and the conversation is suffering.

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