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When I tell people I’m a Christian, a lot of people have a certain set of assumptions about me.
They assume that I hate gay people, that I’m all for shaming and stoning anyone who has sex before marriage, that I love Donald Trump, that I’m an arch-political conservative, that I mainly associate with white people. They assume that I love capitalism and defend drastic wealth inequality, and they assume that I’m a self-righteous stickler for anyone who does wrong,
None of these are true. I believe that I am chief among sinners and that I’m in no place to judge someone else for sinning even though I make a lot of mistakes myself. I am an evangelical, but I am also progressive. I believe that God does not support mass incarceration, nor does He support people not having adequate health insurance.
Scripture backs up these claims. With regard to mass incarceration, God did not intend for people to remain, prisoners, especially for those that are part of His kingdom. In Luke 4:18, Jesus tells us that “He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives…to set at liberty those who are oppressed.” The book of Romans goes back and forth, continuously, about embracing the…
