Deeper Love is a web resource offering faith-based language for progressive political and social action. It provides activists, lay and clergy people, politicians, campaigners, and organizers with inspiring rhetoric to advance social change. I am its editor, along with fellow members of the Theological Reflection Committee of Progressive Christians Uniting. Click here for a look at Deeper Love. We are eager to get input from readers and users - send me your suggestions.
Deeper Love aims to re-enchant America with a spiritually-centered rhetoric that reconnects our souls with our political activism in a language that unites rather than divides, includes rather than excludes. It is language that opens doors to the world rather than separating insiders from outsiders. It is language that takes a stand but doesn't suggest a last stand. It is language that leaves room for interpretation. It moves through poetry and music. It's a rhetoric that makes us hungry for love and justice, moving us to share the bread for the sake of a deeper love.
We can and we must craft a fresh political rhetoric that flows from our shared spiritual experience of compassion, giving life and purpose to our democracy. Essential to the re-enchantment of our civilization and its political life and institutions is holy awe for the potential energy packed in the language we speak and hear and write and read.
In service,
Jim Burklo
Board Member