Elizabeth Bruenig in the Washington Post: "Talk of a rising religious left is unfounded. It already exists." (April 11, 2019)

 In a phone interview, Burge theorized that, as churches move to the right, their liberal members don’t necessarily respond by forming religious-left offshoots, but instead leave religion altogether. A person in that situation, Burge mused, might simply say: “I think I’m done with religion, because there’s no place for me.”  [...]

The religious left is at its most authentic when standing in opposition to earthly power, serving as a prophetic conscience for all those who wield it for ill — consider, for example, the successes of the civil rights and anti-Vietnam War movements.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-religious-left-is-always-just-about-to-happen-will-it-ever-arrive/2019/04/11/f4500bc6-5c83-11e9-9625-01d48d50ef75_story.html