5 Reactions to Bernie Sanders Rejecting Trump Nominee for Christian Beliefs

By Michael Gryboski, Mainline Church Editor Twitter

3. Jim Wallis

President and founder of Sojourners, Jim Wallis, speaks at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. during a press conference announcing a new coalition designed to mobilize opposition against the death penalty on Tuesday, December 9, 2014.
President and founder of Sojourners, Jim Wallis, speaks at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. during a press conference announcing a new coalition designed to mobilize opposition against the death penalty on Tuesday, December 9, 2014. | (Photo: The Christian Post/Sonny Hong)

Liberal evangelical Christian Jim Wallis of Sojourners said in a syndicated column that "Democrats need to become more religiously literate and faith-friendly."

"We religious progressives often feel ignored and abandoned by a Democratic Party that seems indifferent to our religious traditions," wrote Wallis.

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"As an evangelical advocate for social justice, I have fought right-wing religious fundamentalism my whole life. But the secular fundamentalism of the left is not much better — and it certainly does not help garner votes at election time."

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