About Those 100 'Faith Leaders' Who Support Reckless Government Spending

We’re seeing a society become unhinged…again. Trump has quite a way with the radical Left. They absolutely hate him and DOGE, and they daily hourly lose it. Now they’re burning Teslas (so much for climate care), raging in hotel lobbies and on college campuses to defend Hamas supporters, and cursing up a storm at rallies.

It's not just paid activists and politicians jumping into the resistance ring; it’s leftist “faith leaders” too. Recently, nearly 100 “progressive” religious folks signed a letter demanding an unbiblical “Return to Jesus.” The Lenten letter demanded that hundreds of millions of wasted taxpayer dollars continue to flow to (leftist) NGOs.

Funny. I don’t recall the Bible ever advocating that government fund the Church. I don’t recall Jesus demanding the government take care of the poor and ensure justice for those being crushed. Oh, wait, that’s because that’s the Church’s job. But a social justice worldview sees forced taxpayer funding of (leftist) faith-based organizations (despite massive taxpayer fraud and little to no accountability) as good stewardship.

This is what happens when social justice, critical race theory and DEI supplant Scripture. It’s all Marxism masquerading as Christianity. According to the letter, stopping runaway spending of our hard-earned dollars is a form of “racial discrimination.”

Here's why being biblically literate matters. People from all kinds of backgrounds and political persuasions manipulate the Word to fit their agendas. People who love God and the advancement of His Kingdom (and not some political Party’s agenda), however, submit to the Word and abandon their agendas. Sadly, these leftist Christian leaders do the former as they strangely mesh Mark 11 and John 19 into a false narrative to politically attack the current administration: “As we anticipate this sacred season, and Holy Week to follow, let us recall the humble procession of our Lord on a donkey, confronting the imperial, autocratic power of the Roman Empire, with its domestic religious collaborators. In that conflict, the manipulated crowd cried out ‘We have no King but Caesar.’” First, Jesus didn’t ride in on a donkey to confront the Roman Empire. Our Messiah wasn’t a political revolutionary. He was a spiritual one. Second, these 100 “faith leaders” are the religious collaborators who are manipulating the public as they demand that we all bow to the State.

The State will provide. The State giveth (to NGOs) and the State taketh away (from taxpayers).

The letter begins with the admonition: “Defending the vulnerable and opposing unjust decisions are faith-rooted commitments we must examine during Lent.” Who is more vulnerable than the unborn? “Faith communities can be lights shining in the darkness, and truth-tellers to power, based on our proximity and relationship to the most vulnerable children of God who we are especially called to love.” No proximity is any closer than the relationship between a mother and her unborn child. But truth-telling about the violence and exploitation of abortion doesn’t matter to these so-called “faith leaders.” These signers write: “In this critical moment of dehumanization toward the stranger, we affirm our commitment to [illegal] immigrants and refugees. In particular, we support protections of ‘sensitive locations’, including the ‘sacred spaces’…” The womb is both, but the dehumanization of mother and child is irrelevant to them.

Nearly every one of the signers is radically pro-abortion: Jim Wallis (Sojourners), Shane Claiborne (Red Letter Christians), Bishop Claude Alexander (Evangelicals for Harris), Rev. Dr. Starsky Wilson (Children’s Defense Fund), Dr. Jacquelyn Dupont-Walker (AME Church) and so many more.

To all these “red letter Christians” I ask: “WWJD?” Who Would Jesus Dismember?

Signer Jim Wallis is the founder of the pro-abortion “faith-based” magazine Sojourners. In an article he penned about abortion he asks: “Is Common Ground on Abortion Possible?” Let’s see. Is common ground possible on slavery? Sex trafficking? Domestic violence? Clearly, abortion resides in a different moral space for liberal evangelicals. And of course, the sole example he gives for advocating abortion’s legality is rape. Never mind those cases constitute less than 1% of all our nation’s tragic million annual abortions. Are those lives, like mine, worth less? I was conceived in rape but adopted in love. Shouldn’t Christians believe in a God who can enable triumph to rise from tragedy?

A member of the Social Action Commission of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church, a predominantly black denomination, Dr. Jacquelyn Dupont-Walker is radically pro-abortion. The AME church repeatedly denounces “white supremacy” and racism while adamantly supporting it in the form of systemic abortion—the number one killer of black lives. When the Dobbs decision was handed down by the Supreme Court, Dr. Dupont-Walker signed an official (and bizarre) statement from the AME, declaring: “This decision puts millions of women’s lives in danger and threatens the civil rights of all people. We will not let the retrogressive politics of one extremist political party strip away the rights for which our fore parents died.” Nobody’s parents died so that someone’s child could be killed by abortion. “We must stand together against all forms of racism, xenophobia, and white supremacist misrepresentation of biblical faith.” Every one of those words is a misrepresentation.

I remember sitting in a meeting with a bunch of liberal evangelicals in DC a few years ago. Signer Shane Claiborne was part of it. One of the most ridiculous things said during that weekend conference was that a pro-life ethic included advocating for cage-free chickens! Claiborne et al were not interested in my challenge to the group to see abortion as an injustice equivalent to slavery. Quite frankly, most of them didn’t see it as an injustice at all. Claiborne only opposes late term abortions (which comprise less than 4% of all abortions), explaining: “To me, the broad framework for that is for abortion to be legal and safe, and for us to work to make it rarer and rarer, and to limit abortion in the later term.”

Should slavery have been safe, legal and rarer and rarer? These “faith leaders” probably would’ve demanded so.

The full list:

Bishop Claude Alexander, The Park Church

Rev. Dr. Gregory Arthur, Ideos Institute

Rev. Dr. Randall Balmer, Dartmouth College

Dr. Paul Baxley, Cooperative Baptist Fellowship

Sr. Bridget Bearss, RSCJ, Leadership Conference of Women Religious

Rev. Dr. David Beckmann, Circle of Protection

Dr. Christy Berghoef, Holland United Church of Christ

Rev. Dr. Timothy Tee Boddie, Mt. Zion Baptist Church of Farnham, VA

Rev. Thomas Bowen, EngageFaith

Dr. Diana Butler Bass, Author and historian

Chaplain Faith Bynoe, Baptist Fellowship Northeast

Rev. Caleb Campbell, Disarming Leviathan Ministries

Mr. Patrick Carolan, Catholics Vote Common Good

Dr. Rick Chamiec-Case, Sojourners

Pastor Raymond Chang, Asian American Christian Collaborative

Rev. Hope Christensen, Faith Leaders for Ending Gun Violence

Mr. Shane Claiborne, Red Letter Christians

Rev. Dr. Leslie Copeland Tune, National Council of Churches USA

Mr. Avery Davis Lamb, Creation Justice Ministries

Ms. Marie Dennis, Pax Christi International's Catholic Institute for Nonviolence

Rev. Julian DeShazier, University Church

Dr. Michele Dunne, OFS, Franciscan Action Network

Dr. Jacquelyn Dupont-Walker , AME CHURCH - SOCIAL ACTION COMMISSION

Rev. Dr. Gerald Durley, Providence Missionary Baptist Church

Dr. Bob Ekblad, Tierra Nueva

Rev. Sharon Felton , CBF

Ms. Michelle Ferrigno Warren, Virago Strategies

Mrs. Christina Foor , CCDA

Dr. Brian Foreman, Cooperative Baptist Fellowship Global

Rev. Glen Foster, Cooperative Baptist Fellowship West

Rev. Robert Fox, Cooperative Baptist Fellowship Kentucky

Rev. Dr. Robert Franklin, Candler School of Theology

Mrs. Ana Garcia-Ashley, Gamaliel

Rev. Wesley Granberg-Michaelson, General Secretary Emeritus, Reformed Church in America

Rev. Neichelle R. Guidry, Ph.D. , Spelman College

Rev. Dr. Cynthia Hale, Ray of Hope Christian Church (DOC)

Rev. Dr. Andy Hale, CBF North Carolina

Rev. Amanda Hambrick Ashcraft, Middle Church

Rev. Adam Hamilton, Author, The Message of Jesus

Rev. Sekinah Hamlin, Disciples Overseas Ministries

Canon Leonard L Hamlin Sr, Washington National Cathedral

Rev. Dr. Richard Hamm, Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)

Rev. Fred Harrell, Cultivate Pastors and Churches, Inc.

Rev. Dr. Tom Harrington, University Baptist Church

Rev. Moya Harris, Sojourners

Rev. Jimmie Hawkins, Presbyterian Church

Rev. Jennifer Hawks, Cooperative Baptist Fellowship (CBF)

Rev. Dr. Peter Heltzel, Park Avenue Christian Church

Rev. Teresa Hord Owens, Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in the US and Canada

Rev. Deth Im, Faith in Action

Rev. Dr. Amy Jacober, Harbor Church

Rev. Dennis Jacobsen, Gamaliel

Aura Kanegis, American Friends Service Committee

Rev. Dr. Jim Lawrence, Swedenborgian Church of North America

Rev. Wanda London, Baltimore Annual Conference of the AME Church

Ms. Elizabeth Madeira, Southern Christian Coalition

Rev. Carlos L Malave, Latino Christian National Network

Rev. Michael A. Mata, Los Angeles First Church of the Nazarene

Dr. Walter McCray, National Black Evangelical Association

Bishop Vashti McKenzie, NCC

Mr. Ken Medema, Brier Patch Music

Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III, Trinity United Church of Christ

Ms. Joan Neal, NETWORK Advocates for Catholic Social Justice

Rev. Nancy Neal, Bread for the World

Dr. Ruth Padilla DeBorst, INFEMIT

Rev. Dr. Soong-Chan Rah, Fuller Theological Seminary

Rev. Dr. Mitch Randall, Good Faith Media

Senior Bishop Lawrence Reddick, Christian Methodist Episcopal Church

Rev. Dr. Elizabeth Rios, Passion2Plant Network

Bishop Raymond Rivera , Latino Pastoral Action Center (LPAC)

Rev. Bethany Rivera Molinar, Ciudad Nueva Community Outreach

Rev. Sean Roberds, Mid-Atlantic CBF

Rev. Dr. Robert Chao Romero, UCLA

Bishop Dwayne Royster, Faith in Action

Rev. Dr. Alexia Salvatierra, Centro Latino, Fuller Theological Seminary

Mr. Richard Santos, Church World Service

Dr. Monica Schaap Pierce, Christian Churches Together

Dr. Stephen Schneck, Catholics for the Future

Dr. Natasha Sistrunk Robinson, Leadership LINKS, Inc.

Mr. Rich Stearns

General Secretary David Steele, Church of the Brethren

Dr. Maria Stephan, Scholar of civil resistance

Rev. Ron Stief, National Religious Campaign Against Torture

Rev. Adam Taylor, Sojourners

Rev. Heather Taylor, Bread for the World

Rev. Dr. Karen Georgia Thompson, United Church of Christ

Rev. Dr. Marlon Tilghman, BRIDGE Maryland, Inc.

Ms. Nikki Toyama-Szeto, Christians for Social Action

Rev. Harold Dean Trulear, Healing Communities USA

Rev. Dr. Chanequa Walker-Barnes, Columbia Theological Seminary

Ms. Karli Wallace Thompson, Faithful America

Rev. Jim Wallis, Center on Faith and Justice

Rev. Dr. Sharon Watkins, Retired, Disciples of Christ

Dr. Colin Watson, Christian Reformed Church in North America

Mr. Tim Whitaker, The New Evangelicals

Dr. Barbara Williams-Skinner, Skinner Leadership Institute

Rev. Dr. Starsky Wilson, Children’s Defense Fund

Minister Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, St Johns Missionary Baptist Church

Rev. Bill Wylie-Kellermann, Kirkridge Retreat and Study Center

Sr. Carol Zinn, SSJ, Leadership Conference of Women Religious

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