This show plans to Pod cast in the future.  Radio, so commandeered by the Religious Right and conservatives, seems ripe for further activism and development.

by cyncooper on Sat Jan 14, 2006 at 01:54:29 AM EST

The Interfaith Alliance is fortunate to have an articulate spokesperson such as Dr. C. Welon Gaddy at its helm. Dr. Gaddy, a Baptist minister, knows his history and theology, and can explain why it is vital for democracy and for religious groups to maintain the separation of church and state.

For example, in March 5, 2004, interview for PBS "Frontine," Dr. Geddy stated:

Look, I'm for religion. I've spent my whole life in religious communities. The motivations for what I do have deep personal, historical, religious roots. Much of the criticism that I offer --constitutionally, politically, and even more specifically related to the president -- are about what his way of treating religion ultimately does to undercut the authority, the uniqueness, the power of religion.

Every time that religion has identified itself or entangled itself with a particular political movement or a particular government, religion has been harmed by that. I see religion as a powerful positive healing force for this nation and the world. But that force is blunted, weakened, compromised inestimably, if we turn religion into a tool for advancing political strategy; if we make it a matter of how to win political office; if we treat it as anything other than a sacred part of life from which we ought to draw sustenance and values and strength for living courageously as good citizens.

It is because I am for religion that I critique making religion secondary and houses of worship political institutions.

by jhutson on Sat Jan 14, 2006 at 08:09:48 AM EST

This is an extremely important step forward for liberalism. It is solid signal that our political philosphy is once again reconnecting to its past  of religious when the influences of great teachers such as Reinhold Niebuhr, Monsignor John A. Ryan and Martin Luther King, Jr. helped to provide us with moral compass; a time when liberals consistently won elections.

Finally, a sign that the non-socialist Left is a giant that is finally stirring from its long sleep!

by Frank Cocozzelli on Sun Jan 15, 2006 at 10:04:54 AM EST