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Spiritual left refers to a spiritually or religiously based position that shares the social transformative vision of thepolitical left and its commitment to social justice, peace, economic equality, and (in recent years) ecological consciousness, but who base their commitment on spiritual or religious traditions.
Two present-day examples of spiritual leftism areJim Wallis,[1] editor ofSojourners magazine, who finds a call for peace and for the elimination of poverty in the Christian Gospel and RabbiMichael Lerner, editor ofTikkun magazine, calling for a "New Bottom Line" where productivity, efficiency and rationality would be judged not only in material terms, but also in terms of love, generosity, peace, social justice, ecological sanity and awe and wonder at the grandeur of the universe.
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