Sticky issues in the upcoming Mayoral election…

 I noticed this post at Volunteer Voters and it concerned me:

 

The “New Wine Ministers” will be talking mayoral politics tomorrow at theFifteenth Avenue Baptist Church tomorrow. Who are the “New Wine Ministers”?Mary Mancini didn’t know either so she made a call.

I spoke to Reverend Singletary, who explained that they are a progressive-minded group of ministers who take their name from the biblical passage, “And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine will burst the wineskins and be spilled, and the wineskins will be ruined.” Their issues of concern are social justice issues – food security, diversity, affordable housing, income disparity, etc. – and they look at what they are doing as a paradigm shift.

 This new movement reminded me of two of my recent posts on the separation of church and state (which, to be honest, don’t on point address the issue contextually but touch on salient issues none-the less). As churches move to address issues they are concerned about I hope they do so in a bipartisan manner, such that members are able to answer the question for themselves, rather than being force fed one political diatribe or another. Irrespective, I like this more social justice perspective of the church, as it seems to answer the over zealous and misguided diatribes by folks like Christopher Hitchens.