No political victory should be worth sacrificing moral integrity

Across the country, churches, synagogues and mosques have become increasingly conscious of their moral obligation to care for the environment. Many are stepping up their environmental activism by investing in renewable energy and particularly solar panels. But the speed with which they take on solar panels has much to do with economics.

It’s shameful, not only because they use their theology to make the moving of the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem a matter of “eternal” significance, but also because they refuse to hold the Netanyahu government accountable for Israel’s treatment of Palestinians, some of whom are themselves evangelical Christians.

As climate change threatens our very future, and economic inequality stokes dangerous social polarization, we are literally in a battle for our lives — one that can only be won in “sage mode” rather than “warrior mode.” We now need to show up at our wisest and best. And that only happens when the political and the spiritual are integrated.

The alliance between fundamentalist Protestants and Roman Catholics cannot survive the humiliations of evangelical support for President Trump.