But as I thought about what to say or do in response to Sojourners’s decision, I felt confronted by a terrible ambiguity, similar to what my dad must have felt when he excluded my name from my sermon. The ambiguity is this: Sojourners has, in my assessment, done more than any other organization to call evangelical Christians to the reality that a central part of following Jesus is a concern for the poor. This is a truth largely absent from much of American evangelicalism. Sojourners has a platform to speak about social justice to those who otherwise may not have ears to hear, and this is
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