There will always be religious voices on the political and theological left of course. But its main institutions are all in sharp decline and many are fading away, such that American religion is dominated by voices on the right.
The latest near demise is Faith and Public Life, which is reducing its staff from 19 to two, with a budget that’s quickly declined from $6 million to $223,802. Founded in 2006 by a Presbyterian Church (USA) minister to advocate for progressive causes, it was closely aligned with Mainline Protestantism, as has been most of the Religious Left. As Mainline Protestantism recedes, so too does the institutional Religious Left. The same article in Sojourners, a Religious Left outlet, also admitted that Sojourners, which was founded in the 1970s by activist Jim Wallis, is itself cutting back.
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