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ON PROGRESSIVE PROPHETIC ACTIVISM: HOW CLUE WORKS, by Wayne Martin Mellinger

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                                                                             On Progressive Prophetic Activism: How CLUE Works Wayne Martin Mellinger, Ph.D. Religion and spirituality bring to social movements and struggles for social change a moral framework for activism, motivating our work for justice and compassion.   They bring communities of faith who passionately support our work and provide us leadership.   They give us a sense of purpose. Ours is a progressive prophetic activism with a vision of the Beloved Community in which all people share the wealth of the Earth.   In The Beloved Community, poverty, hunger, and homelessness will not be tolerated because standards of human decency will not allow it. We read religious texts as pointing ...