From Religion Dispatches
We begin this semester looking at religion (specifically particular articulations of Protestant Christianity) as a sources of expectations about the future in the USA: millennialists with apocalyptic visions; Walt Whitman's call for a religious spirit to animate democratic vistas, etc. This calm, measured piece by a UCC pastor in rural Wisconsin takes up similar themes relative to recent conflicts in his state over collective bargaining. He is slow to make theological "hay" out of the situation while clearly pointing to a sort of political awakening.
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