Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons, one of many nation’s prime advocates and specialists working on the intersection of faith, politics and coverage, has simply this week joined Interfaith Alliance because the group’s new Senior Director of Coverage and Advocacy.
To start out off his tenure, he joined host Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush on The State of Perception, Interfaith Alliance’s weekly radio program and podcast, to debate the specter of the Christian nationalist proper’s imaginative and prescient for America’s future – and the way so many Christians and different Individuals of numerous faiths and beliefs are collaborating to advance a compelling, competing imaginative and prescient of true non secular freedom and mutual respect.
“If authoritarianism involves america, it is going to be carried out within the title of Christianity and restoring God to the general public and placing God again in our colleges. And it is going to be a Christian theocracy that’s superior. And also you see that in Undertaking 2025. A yr in the past, I used to be the primary individual to undergo this 900-page doc and determine the completely different theocratic components of it. They discuss how they will put forth a spiritual definition of marriage… They discuss portraying the left as attempting to advance a faith that may assault Christianity. And so all through Undertaking 2025, you see express and implicit appeals to Christian nationalism.”
– Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons, who joins Interfaith Alliance with greater than a decade of expertise working with religion communities on a number of the most vital social justice problems with our time: non secular freedom, democracy, LGBTQ rights, reproductive freedom, immigration, anti-Muslim bigotry, and extra. He most not too long ago labored on the Baptist Joint Committee for Non secular Liberty, with an emphasis on its Christians In opposition to Christian Nationalism marketing campaign. Previous to BJC, he held positions on the Heart for American Progress, ReThink Media, and the Nationwide Immigration Discussion board. An ordained Baptist deacon, he’s the writer of Simply Religion: Reclaiming Progressive Christianity (Broadleaf Books, 2020). In 2019, the Heart for American Progress (CAP) named him certainly one of its annual checklist of Religion Leaders to Watch.
