1.1 Vision, Mission and Strategies
I’m creating this website in the service of this vision for the future of our country:
My Vision: a vital, pluralistic center-left/center-right in American faith and politics working together for the ideals of Freedom, the Common Good and Social Justice in realistic ways.
My Vision: a vital, pluralistic center-left/center-right in American faith and politics working together for the ideals of Freedom, the Common Good and Social Justice in realistic ways.
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To help our nation move toward this vision, I’m called to this dual mission:
My Mission: (1) to help people and groups of many healthy faiths (religious and/or secular) understand that their faith is incomplete without some political activism for the Common Good, including working for a strong center-left/center-right political base in America, and (2) to help people and groups of many healthy political persuasions (liberal and conservative) understand the necessity of grounding their politics in the deep values of a healthy faith (religious and/or secular) and work both to deepen their own faith and to establish closer ties with persons and groups of other healthy faiths. |
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The first six sections of this website are devoted to these key strategies for accomplishing this mission:
Strategies:
Strategies:
- Explain the main reasons for creating this website, its historical context and key terms and symbols (Section 1)
- Share my perspective on (1) our present faith & politics crisis, (2) why principled (not superficial) centrism is crucial to a solution and (3) the mistaken assumption held by people of many faiths and political persuasions that it's impossible to have healthy interrelationships between faith and politics (Section 2)
- Inform readers about my own family background, education, professional life, spiritual journey, and political evolution; and how I feel called and especially situated to create this website (Section 3)
- Share my reviews of the best resources I’ve found for understanding and promoting healthy faiths (Section 4)
- Share my reviews of the best resources I've found for understanding and promoting healthy politics (Section 5)
- Share my reviews of the best resources I've found for understanding and promoting healthy interrelationships between faith & politics (Section 6)
(Click this button to go to the next page, which describes the unique methods this website uses to address (1) some of the paralyzing aspects of our current Information Age and (2) why it's the opportune moment for more of the general public to understand and embrace that we are living in the Postmodern Age.)
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