Keep The Door Open

By Peter Molenaar

In consequence to May”'s column “Mind and Body Unite”, I did catch some flak from the comrades. Hey, can”'t a lonely atheist do a little outreach?

Well you, Peter, by opening the door to agnosticism have, at the very least, looked upon a “slippery slope”. Decide, please. All right then, I shall open the door even further.

Yes, my motive here is part political inasmuch as I work with a coalition which includes ISAIAH. ISAIAH is itself a coalition of more than 100 Christian congregations, including from this neighborhood, and throughout Minnesota. Their mission is pro-labor, pro-peace, and anti-racist.

In one instance I was actually the only non-Christian in a room full of ISAIAH folks. Trust me, they were rational and collaborative, and in many ways strikingly normal people.

Some time later, while serving as a bus captain en route to a downtown protest rally, I noted the collared pastor among us. A denunciation of the belief that our capitalist rulers acquired their wealth by the grace of God ensued. “That”'s a lie” shouted the pastor while leaping to his feet. He too was from ISAIAH.

So then the larger coalition, Minnesotans for a Fair economy, deemed it necessary to convene a “get to know you” mixer.… Read the rest “Keep The Door Open”