Network of Spiritual Progressives
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The Network of Spiritual Progressives (NSP) is an international political and social justice movement based in the United States that was founded in 2005. The movement seeks to influence American politics towards more humane, progressive values as well as to challenge what they perceive as the misuse of religion by political conservatives and to challenge the ofttimes anti-religious assumptions of many liberals. In the international sphere, the NSP seeks to foster inter-religious understanding and work for social justice.
NSP held an initial conference of some 1,200 activists in July 2005 in Berkeley, California and a second conference with a similar number of participants was held in Washington, DC in May, 2006. The NSP was founded by Rabbi Michael Lerner, who serves as co-director of the organization along with Cornel West and Sister Joan Chittister. Required reading for the movement is Lerner's book "The Left Hand of God: Taking Back Our Country from the Religious Right". Another book often recommended is Jim Wallis's God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It. The movement hopes to develop substantial legislative proposals by 2008.
The vast majority of NSP chapters are in the United States, with the notable exception of a Canadian chapter in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
[edit] External links
- Network of Spiritual Progressives
- The Tikkun Community - parent organization of the NSP
