{"id":3100,"date":"2011-05-12T10:22:20","date_gmt":"2011-05-12T15:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/tonyjones\/?p=3100"},"modified":"2011-05-12T10:22:20","modified_gmt":"2011-05-12T15:22:20","slug":"adding-nuance-to-the-sojourners-kerfuffle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/tonyjones\/2011\/05\/12\/adding-nuance-to-the-sojourners-kerfuffle\/","title":{"rendered":"Adding Nuance to the Sojourners Kerfuffle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Some of my friends have weighed in the on the Sojo-BelieveOutLoud controversy, as have some commenters on yesterday\u2019s post<\/a>.\u00a0 Nadia Bolz-Weber<\/a> comes out of blog-hibernation to write,<\/p>\n

Are the poor more important than GLBTQ folks?\u00a0 Is it ok to throw the rights of one group under the bus so that another group\u2019s rights might be upheld? I wish there were really clear back and white answers here but the fact is that we live in a much more ambiguous world than that.\u00a0 As a Lutheran I confess to living in the tension of being simultaneously sinner and saint and living in a world filed with the paradox of such.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Brian McLaren, writes as an LGBTQ Ally<\/a> and a former board chair of Sojo.\u00a0 Sojo is, he writes<\/a>, a coalition-building organization, and as such it has to walk a tightrope:<\/p>\n

If I were to boil down messy contemporary reality to an equation, here\u2019s what it would be:<\/p>\n

\u2013 You can\u2019t lead a coalition of progressive Christians without being an outspoken leader on LGBTQ issues.
\n\u2013 You can\u2019t lead a coalition that includes mainstream Evangelical and conservative Catholic Christians if you are an outspoken leader on LGBTQ issues.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That leaves Sojo in a precarious position, and it seems to leave Jim Wallis with a choice to make: Does Sojo want to build a mainline-progressive coalition or an evangelical coalition.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think he can do both.\u00a0 Sadly, that\u2019s the reality of the church in America these days.<\/p>\n

On Facebook, Mike Clawson<\/a> challenged my argument yesterday that evangelicals have already abandoned Sojo.\u00a0 Not so, he says, based on the advertising in recent issues of Sojourners Magazine<\/em>:<\/p>\n

Mike makes a good point.\u00a0 He also says that Jim Wallis is still asked to speak at places that Brian McLaren and I are not, particularly evangelical college chapel services.\u00a0 I can\u2019t confirm this since Jim\u2019s speaking schedule at sojo.net doesn\u2019t list many speaking gigs.<\/p>\n

It does, however, list the Wild Goose Festival<\/a>, where Jim and Nadia and Brian and I and many others will be.\u00a0 Let\u2019s hope that we can have a public conversation there about the role of GLBT Allies and coalition building in the church.\u00a0 In fact, let\u2019s hope that conversation can be public.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some of my friends have weighed in the on the Sojo-BelieveOutLoud controversy, as have some commenters on yesterday\u2019s post.\u00a0 Nadia Bolz-Weber comes out of blog-hibernation to write, Are the poor more important than GLBTQ folks?\u00a0 Is it ok to throw the rights of one group under the bus so that another group\u2019s rights might be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,17],"tags":[88,335,451,586],"class_list":["post-3100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity-in-america","category-glbt","tag-brian-mclaren","tag-jim-wallis","tag-nadia-bolz-weber","tag-sojourners"],"yoast_head":"\nAdding Nuance to the Sojourners Kerfuffle<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Some of my friends have weighed in the on the Sojo-BelieveOutLoud controversy, as have some commenters on 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