Realpolitik no more, please

It's too easy to poke fun at people. I've just been perusing back issues of Sojourners Magazine and, while I appreciate the perspective they provide, it seems to me that they're sliding into some of the very things they're criticizing.

I mean, they're picking apart the Religious Right--whatever that is--subtly, shyly almost. Sometimes not too shyly, as Barack Obama's cover story speech a few months back made clear. But reading it feels an awful lot like sitting in an English grad seminar--all the jokes are made at Bush's expense, all the conversation revolves around eventually to climate change and SUVs.

In other words, I'm worried that Wallis et al. are becoming just as partisan as Dobson & Co. It's easy to rip apart Bush, and it's simple to point out the big mistakes which are being made in Colorado Springs. It's way too simple. Besides, most people in America already agree.

Perhaps we'd all be better off if we stopped being so concerned about making things happen in Washington, D.C. and started being more worried about things already occurring in our own neighborhoods.