CrossWalk America

Here’s something worth a look: I just got a press release from a group called CrossWalk America, which is a newly-formed, moderate/progressive Christian group beginning a 2,500-mile walk across America on Easter Sunday to “promote the core values of Christianity they feel are often overlooked in today’s divisive world.”

The basic assumption of both CWA and NLS:CFJ is that moderate and progressive Christians have been overly content to remain silent as fundamentalism has gradually eroded mainstream Christianity in the public sphere. We believe it is time to “stand up and be counted,” calling the church to be church, in voice and action.

A quote by Martin Niemoeller (1892-1984), sums our stance up well:

"When they came for the communists, I was silent, because I was not a communist; When they came for the socialists, I was silent, because I was not a socialist; When they came for the trade unionists, I did not protest, because I was not a trade unionist; When they came for the Jews, I did not protest, because I was not a Jew; When they came for me, there was no one left to protest on my behalf."

Good for them. Let’s see if the mainstream media bothers to give it half the attention they grant to the likes of Buchanan, Falwell, and Dobson.