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Changes in faith: religion as a
call to action
Valley Interfaith leaders come to see the potential for change
through their constant victories, the "proof". Just as
important as this belief in the "seen", however, is a
belief in the "unseen", a belief in God.
For the leaders of Valley Interfaith, a critical factor in developing
a new understanding of their political context is a revised conception
of the church as an agent for change. For many leaders, their participation
has led to a deepened faith. Not only is their faith stronger, they
understand their responsibilties to act on these beliefs differently.
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"The development of
a person is really a spiritual event. As a person discovers
their own dignity, they are worth and they have every right,
that is discovering who they are as children of God. ŠSo that
anything enriches that is part of coming to develop ourselves,
the more spiritual you are, basically the more human you are.
The more compassionate you are. The more that you feel for
other people. The more that you embrace other people, That
is, for me, a consequence of faith."
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| "...when
we have the trainings with Valley Interfaith, that's where really
I understand more about the bible because they give examples
of what we do and what God wants us to do. So that kind of changed...I
would go to church and I don't know--I wouldn't see really what
God was trying to give with the message until I got involved
with Valley Interfaith." |
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about faith
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"If
before I had faith, now I have more faith. Because you spend
your life saying "Señor, señor, help me," but
nobody does anything to help themselves, so you don't get anywhere.
But tha''s where your faith comes in and God says 'help yourself,
so I can help you.'" |
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"Well, my faith before
was a weak faith, very conformist faith. Before one had a
faith that was the kind of faith you always had, in God, in
the Virgin, but always wanting to things to come to us, not
going out to look for them and that's what you need to do.
It's not just because you have faith or because you are very
Catholic or very Christian that you can sit down and wait
for things to come to you, you need to look for them, you
have to do your part.
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