Upon reading article after article about the increasing secularization of society, the rise of the "nones," and how they are gravitating towards the Democratic Party, one of the most surprising developments in the new election cycle has been the emergence of a Christian Left.
First, in his CNN town hall, Mayor Pete Buttigieg was asked about his fellow Hoosier Vice President Mike Pence and he went right for Pence's religious right jugular: "Is it that he stopped believing in Scripture when he started believing in Trump?" He has since spoken about his faith at every opportunity and explicitly called for a rising up of the Christian Left to balance out the Christian Right. Pictures of him getting married to his husband in South Bend's Episcopal cathedral tend to accompany profiles of the mayor.
Then, it was Sen. Elizabeth Warren in her CNN town hall. When asked about her faith she misidentified the scriptural verse, but she grasped the essence of Matthew 25 and explained with remarkable passion that the parable did not merely confer an ethical standard, although it certainly does that, but that it calls its listeners to action.
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