Praying For The Tribe

by digby

I'm a big fan of the Living Liberally network and their work to bring together like minded people of similar values in social situations. It's easy for me, living in a place like the people's Republic of Santa Monica to run into fellow liberals but even so there's nothing quite like being in a place with a whole group of people who are gathering together because they are liberals. It's much more relaxing, even here. I can't imagine how nice it must be for those who live in very conservative places.

They've come up with a new initiative that will very likely appeal to some of you who might like something spiritual instead of spirits (or both!)

Street Prophets has the good news from Seth Pearce of Living Liberally:

Through ... happy hours, comedy shows, film screenings, book clubs and meals, we fulfill our key mission of bringing politics into places where we gather, socialize, learn, love and live. One of these places to which we have yet to reach out is the liberal religious community, one that, unfortunately, has found few spaces to gather and organize in person, in public, loud and proud.

For this reason we are developing a brand new Living Liberally network: Praying Liberally!

Like our other chapters, Praying Liberally chapters will have weekly, semi-monthly or monthly meetings of local liberals from a wide range of faiths including, as pastordan so excellently phrases it, "those whose deepest faith is in the conviction that there is no God." At these meetings, faithfully-minded liberals could talk politics, say a collective prayer for "the least of these" in our community, our country and our world, and build community to organize around our common causes.




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