A new report from a center-left think tank is questioning the appeal and impact of the religious left. It also touts economic justice as the most "fertile ground of this era" for liberal religious political mobilizing, with the civil rights movement of the 1960s as the exemplar.
The study released by the Brookings Institution titled "Faith in Equality: Economic Justice and the Future of Religious Progressives" notes the major impact of religious left voices have had throughout American history. But it cites challenges to religious political witness from growing secularization, divisions between religious and secular Americans, and weakened infrastructure for liberal churches.
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