ARE "SPIRITUAL" PEOPLE SUPPOSED TO BE POLITICAL?

In 1998 I published a book called HEALING THE SOUL OF AMERICA, about the relationship between spirituality and politics. I learned many things writing it, particularly how everyone from Gandhi to the Abolitionists to the Suffragists to Martin Luther King Jr. based their calls for justice on their adherence to their spiritual beliefs.

Martin Luther King Jr. famously said, "Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.” We cannot stand for love only in the easy places. We must be willing to apply power - even, and in some cases particularly ,political power - if we’re to make the dreams we dream real for ourselves and for the world.