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Daniel Schultz, a United Church of Christ pastor and co-founder of the blog Street Prophets<\/a>, has published a provocative new book Changing The Script: An Authentically Faithful and Authentically Progressive Political Theology for the 21st Century.<\/a> I\u2019ve got it in my bag, and am anxious to dig in to his passionate perspective on an \u201cauthentically progressive and authentically faithful religious ideal.\u201d\u00a0 Here\u2019s an introduction to the book, from its back cover:<\/p>\n

\u201cIn recent years, and in particular since the election of Barack Obama, the religious conversation in America has been dominated by calls for progressives to move beyond \u201cpartisanship\u201d by reaching out to evangelicals in order to create a \u201cbig tent\u201d on social issues such as abortion and marriage equality, despite the lack of evidence that such a strategy can or ever did work.\u00a0 This misguided notion that we can build a shared political and religious center has for the most part shut out true progressive voices, allowing a small conservative minority to control the political and religious debate in this country, with only the most tepid of moral criticism from the religious centrists who claim to desire bipartisan consensus.\u201d<\/p>\n

Author Jeff Sharlett writes of the book:\u00a0 \u201cThis is a political book, as well as a pious one, and Pastor Dan, as he\u2019s known, isn\u2019t leading us to common ground but to battle.\u00a0 Thank God for liberals like Dan, who know some things are worth fighting for.\u201d<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll be publishing an excerpt here at Patheos<\/a> in the coming week, but in the meantime, Pastor Dan is hosting a Q&A on the book and it\u2019s themes tomorrow at his Facebook page here<\/a>.\u00a0 He\u2019s inviting comments, questions, even \u201cpolite critiques.\u201d<\/p>\n

So, what do you think?\u00a0 \u201cBig Tent\u201d Christianity<\/a>, or a more clearly articulated \u201cauthentic progressive ideal?\u201d\u00a0 What\u2019s at stake?\u00a0 Join the conversation over at the Changing the Script facebook page, or leave a comment here.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"