Jim Wallis and a Religion of Hope

James Dobson released a “Letter From 2012 in an Obama Administration” earlier in the week, which coming from a leader of the religious right, was embarrassing to Christians around the country.

Jim Wallis, also a leader in the evangelical movement, called Dobson out for his biased and hatred-filled prose and asked for an apology. The letter “shows the kind of negative Christian leadership that has become so embarrassing to so many of your fellow Christians in America. We are weary of this kind of Christian leadership, and that is why so many are forsaking the Religious Right in this election.“

He goes on to say…  ”Dr. Dobson, you of course have the same right as every Christian and every American to vote your own convictions on the issues you most care about, but you have chosen to insult the convictions of millions of other Christians, whose own deeply held faith convictions might motivate them to vote differently than you. This epistle of fear is perhaps the dying gasp of a discredited heterodoxy of conservative religion and conservative politics. But out of that death, a resurrection of biblical politics more faithful to the whole gospel–one that is truly good news–might indeed be coming to life.”

We can only hope that Wallis’ vision for the future comes to pass.