A pastor at a Democratic National Committee (DNC) event on Monday turned what many expected to be a sermon about faith into a political lecture on “justice,” “joy,” and the duty of being a “neighbor.”
The DNC held its summer meeting on Monday. During the event, pastor Jen Rome spoke, but instead of invoking God or scripture, the pastor leaned heavily on progressive buzzwords and told the crowd they had gathered “as part of a clinical process, longing for justice and joy for all people and creation.”
“Just showing up means that you are people of hope, hope for the world to turn on an axis of love. Deep in my spiritual tradition is the love of neighbor, which came from its founding and sibling tradition. Love of neighbor is part of so many expressions of faith and wisdom. Neighbor doesn’t just mean the person living in the apartment or the house, or the tent next to you. Neighbor means all human beings. We are a nation of neighbors, neighbors to love,” Rome said.
Rome urged attendees to carry their activism into “equity, dignity, and compassion for all.” She told the crowd that even as they face “complicated conversations” and “difficult decisions,” their ultimate duty is to “take loving action.”
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“For me, being a neighbor is everything. It’s what I’m called to be, with all my faults and biases, with all my gifts, with all my life. I imagine that you will be having complicated conversations and be making difficult decisions. Yet underneath it all is something very simple. You are here to love your neighbors, to take loving action for your neighbors, to move our nation towards love made known in equity, dignity, and compassion for all,” Rome said.
“So as you gather, what would you do in these next days to care for your neighbors, your states, this nation, the world, and the earth itself? In the presence of what is utterly divine and deeply human, may love be the heart of your work together,” Rome said.
During the DNC event, party officials opened their summer meeting with a “land acknowledgement” before moving on to business. The gathering followed a Quinnipiac poll that showed just 19% of respondents approved of Democratic congressional leadership, as the party continued to face infighting and fundraising struggles.
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