Sam Smith - I have recently have become conscious of something about the civil rights movement that I hadn't noticed before: not just the role of churches in the effort, but how their culture influenced the movement by creating congregations of like minded souls.
Modern progressive movements are far more atomized for a number of reasons, including the fact that they have to compete for funds from foundations and other sources and because their goals are often much more specific. Thus 350.org and a labor union may think that they have little in common.
In talking about this recently with the other journalist in my family - nephew and sportscaster Clemson Smith Muniz - he picked up on my reference to congregations and said, "Yeah, now they are constellations."
A great term for the progressive movement these days. A collection of heavenly objects unscientifically defined as being part of the same thing, but in fact moving through the skies very much on their own.
One of the big challenges for the progressive movement is how to end the comic isolation of objects in constellations and rediscover the power of congregations.
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One of the big challenges for the progressive movement is how to end the comic isolation of objects in constellations and rediscover the power of congregations.
in the age of the internet. We made need to move to plan B.
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