The Spiritual Truth

A spiritual progressive movement is on the rise and seeking to make inroads into our nation’s social and governing structures. Spiritual progressives, a group of inter-faith activists, call for a “new bottom line” in dealing with the ailments in our world today. This “new bottom line” consists of the following:

“We believe that they (institutions and social practices) should be judged rational, efficient and productive not only to the extent that they maximize money and power, but also to the extent that they maximize love and caring, ethical and ecological sensitivity and behavior, kindness and generosity, non-violence and peace, and to the extent that they enhance our capacities to respond to other human beings in a way that honors them as embodiments of the sacred, and enhances our capacities to respond to the earth and the universe with awe, wonder and radical amazement.”

This movement hopes to increase it potential momentum by characterizing itself as an alternative to Right wing fundamentalism and Left wing liberalism which they have criticized as having misused and misrepresented true spirituality and religion.
This movement hopes to rid the world of spiritual and social oppression by deepening spiritual understanding:

“We hope to have the courage-- in the tradition of the Jewish prophets and interpreters of Torah, In the spirit of Jesus and the early Christian communities of resistance to Rome, in the spirit of Muhammed, in the spirit of the activists of the labor & civil rights and feminist and gay rights movements-- to speak truth to power.”

Jesus said, “If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free” (John 8:31:32). Christ also taught that the scriptures pointed to Him as being the Messiah. So it is the word that leads us to Christ and in Christ is the truth. To speak the truth to power is to speak of Christ. Anything or anyone short of proclaiming Christ as the sole Redeemer and Saviour of this world is in darkness and in the spirit of the flesh.

Quotes taken from www.tikkun.org