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transform the world.
Learn more about
the Network of
Spiritual Progressives
in Michael Lerner's
new booK:
The Network of Spiritual Progressives is a national interfaith network of spiritually alive people looking to change the "Bottom Line" in
America. Our core vision is founded on giving central focus to a spiritual vision, a vision that creates a real alternative to the political Right, to the fundamentalists (religious and political),
and to our society's ethos of selfishness,
materialism and cynicism.
We seek to create that alternative as a community of people from many faiths and traditions who join in support of a "Spiritual Covenant with America," with its vision of a network of people all working to heal and transform the world.
There are four basic tenets that drive everything we do:
**We advocate a New Bottom Line in America,
one that values love, generosity & ecological
sensitivity in our economy, education, media,
and government.
**We advocate a new global consciousness
and propose a Global Marshall Plan to end
war and promote world peace.
**We promote awe, radical amazement gratitude with an inner spiritual life.
**We challenge the misuse of God and religion
by the 'Religious Right' and the misuse and
religio-phobia about God by some in the Left.
The national chair
and founder of the
Network of Spiritual
Progressives is
Rabbi Michael Lerner.
The co-chairs are
Cornel West and
Benedictine Sister
Joan Chittister.
As part of a national blueprint to end war and
promote world peace, the Network of Spiritual Progressives is proposing that the United States
take the lead by supporting a "Global Marshall
Plan: An Alternative to War Spending."
The Global Marshall Plan has been introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives as H.R.1087
and has a small but growing number of
co-sponsors, including San Diego Representative
Susan Davis.
Members of our San Diego chapter have been
presenting panel discussions on the Global Marshall Plan throughout 2007 and 2008. For more on this plan, see the link to the Global Marshall Plan on this page.
We are a local chapter, part of a growing national movement that represents a shift in thinking now beginning to take place in our country.
We are working nationwide to promote peace over war, environmental sustainability over
environmental degradation, respect for humanity and human rights over fear and torture, and support for national policies that promote a better quality of life for the many instead of for a select few.