Network of Spiritual Progressives
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| Type | Non-profit / NGO |
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| Fields | money in politics, global poverty, peace in the middle east |
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Key people
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Rabbi Michael Lerner Sister Joan Chittister Cornell West |
| Website | http://spiritualprogressives.org/ |
The Network of Spiritual Progressives (NSP) is an international political and social justice movement based in the United States that seeks to influence American politics towards more humane, progressive values. The organization also challenges what it perceives as the misuse of religion by political conservatives and the anti-religious attitudes of many liberals. In the international sphere, the NSP seeks to foster inter-religious understanding and work for social justice.
The NSP was founded in 2005 by Rabbi Michael Lerner, who serves as co-director of the organization with Cornel West and Sister Joan Chittister. More than 1,200 activists attended each of the group's conferences in Berkeley, California (July 2005) and Washington, D.C. (May 2006).
As of December 2007, the NSP had chapters in 31 states as well as Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Melbourne, Australia; and in Costa Rica.
The Network of Spiritual Progressives was founded based on three basic tenets:
Today, institutions and social practices are judged efficient, rational and productive to the extent that they maximize money and power. That's the old bottom line. The NSP advocates a new bottom line: that they should be judged rational, efficient and productive not only to the extent that they maximize money and power, but also to the extent that they maximize love and caring, ethical behavior, ecological sensitivity, kindness, generosity, non-violence and peace, and to the extent that they enhance our capacities to respond to other human beings in a way that honors them as embodiments of the sacred, and enhances our capacities to respond to the earth and the universe with awe, wonder and radical amazement.
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