Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons King’s commitment to representing the God-given dignity of human life The religious conservatives’ opposition to the civil rights nature of Rev. Dr. King’s ministry also came into focus during the final years of his life, when he embraced a broader…
Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons Why I’m going to church for Easter by Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/03/opinions/easter-jesus-gallup-poll-church-decline-graves-fitzsimmons/index.html
Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons Conservatives opposing the Equality Act don’t speak for most people of faith, and they know it by Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons Most Americans, including religious ones, support LGBTQ people's right to nondiscriminatory treatment. So conservative fearmongers switched tactics. https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/conservatives-opposing-equality-act-don-t-speak-most-people-faith-ncna1258910
Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons Private schools in the South opened by white parents to avoid desegregated public schools The Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 was heralded by progressive Christians and many other Americans as a huge advance for social justice, but it…
Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons To de-radicalize the story, to make it anything other than extreme, is to reduce the clear message of the early church. “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” a rich young ruler asked Jesus (Mark 10:17). Many conservative Christians offer an easy answer for that question, claiming that…
Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons Trump fueled conservative Christian power. But with Biden and Warnock, that can change. For decades, conservatives controlled American religious discourse. But a progressive coalition is on the rise. (Got that right!!) https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/trump-fueled-conservative-christian-power-biden-warnock-can-change-ncna1255461
Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons Advancing religious freedom abroad starts at home by Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons and Maggie Siddiqi https://religionnews.com/2021/01/15/advancing-religious-freedom-abroad-starts-at-home/
Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons It’s the gospel It is the black social gospel that led directly to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement. “First, many people talk about the civil rights movement…
Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons FDR As president, FDR “rallied a solid majority of American citizens to a vision of justice and democracy that came right out of Scripture - and his heritage of liberal Protestantism.”…
Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons “The better we know Jesus, the more social do his thoughts and aims become” Today, we mostly think of social justice as a secular movement sometimes associated with progressive causes that are fighting the “Christian right” and other conservative groups. But many of the…
Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons Why the GOP is so rattled by Rev. Warnock’s faith-based Georgia Senate campaign by Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/23/opinions/reverend-warnock-religious-left-graves-fitzsimmons/index.html
Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons Judging a society based on how the most vulnerable are treated In contrast to the conservative Christian focus on “saving souls” from eternal conscious torment in hell, progressives return to Matthew 25, where Jesus builds on the long history of Jewish…
Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons 1,600 faith leaders have endorsed Biden. This is why I added my name. by Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons https://americanindependent.com/opinion-faith-leaders-endorsement-joe-biden-donald-trump-christians/
Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons Fundamentalism Today “fundamentalism” has come into common usage to mean a strict resistance to change in any religious context, but at that time the word was new. It derives from a…
Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons Just Faith: Reclaiming Progressive Christianity This book focuses on the type of progressive Christian political engagement championed by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and many others in the public square and outside the walls…
Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons Un-Christlike Conservativism I’ve traveled around the country working at the intersection of progressive politics and religion for the past decade and met countless activists bogged down by un-Christlike conservativism prevailing in our…
Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons The false prophets of conservative Christianity When historians look back at the history of Christianity and politics in the United States, 2016 will hopefully be marked as the turning of the tide. The alliance between the…
Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons Christians should not be in favor of discrimination by Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons In Christ’s family there can be no division into Jew and non-Jew, slave and free, male and female. Among us you are all equal. That is, we…
