Wes Brown

Jesus Goes to Washington

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Christians readily embrace Jesus the divine and Jesus the man, but what will they make of Jesus the politician? Doug Miller makes a convincing case that Jesus was a progressive, offering provocative interpretations of Jesus' views and actions regarding human sexuality, a living wage, affirmative action, ecology, and even judicial activism." --Anne Semans, Author of The Good Vibrations Guide to Sex "For too long, Jesus' gospel has been preached as a kind of disembodied spiritualism that the church then tried to tie to social justice action. Doug Miller's approach reverses that order, grounding the teachings of Jesus as a form of social justice action and countering the last hundred years' tendency to frame Jesus as a teacher of individualistic piety. This is a real and valuable contribution.”