Thank you, kcvl.
National Council of Churches
Resources on Religious Freedom, Religious Persecution Abroad
Global religious freedom and religious persecution abroad are urgent public policy issues and will continue to reach into the life of our churches. We at the NCC hope that the following resources will help you, your church and your community as you seek to respond to these important concerns.
We hope that both ecumenically and together and in the life of our individual churches, we can bring attention to religious persecution in ways that reflect the best sensitivities, understandings and commitments of our shared Christian faith.
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Religious leaders will monitor violations of freedom abroad
...Don Argue, president of the National Association of Evangelicals, and James Henry, pastor of First Baptist in Orlando and former head of the Southern Baptist Convention
...In addition to Argue and [James] Henry, the advisory committee on religious freedom abroad includes: Joan Brown Campbell, National Council of Churches of Christ; Diana L. Eck, Harvard University; Wilma M. Ellis, Baha'is of the Americas; Irving Greenberg, National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership; Frederick Calhoun James, African Methodist Episcopal Church; Leonid Kishkovsky, Orthodox Church of America; Samuel Billy Kyles, Memorial Baptist Church, Memphis, Tenn.; Deborah E. Lipstadt, Emory University; David Little, U.S. Institute of Peace; Laila Al-Marayati, Muslim Women's League; Theodore E. McCarrick, Archbishop of Newark; Wallace Deen Mohammed, Society of Muslim Americans; Russel Marion Nelson, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; Ricardo Ramirez, Bishop of Las Cruces, N.M.; Barnett Richard Rubin, Council on Foreign Relations; Nina Shea, Puebla Project of Freedom House; Elliot Sperling, Indiana University; and Archbishop Spyridon of America, Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America.
Joan Brown Campbell is General Secretary of the National Council of Churches of Christ (USA). April 26, 1992:
Joan B. Campbell: One of the mistakes that people often make is they think of certain churches as conservative. The fact of the matter is that within every congregation there probably is a range of liberals and conservatives. There is a kind of myth that goes around that the National Council is perhaps not concerned with spiritual things, but concerned too much with things of the world or political things.
Liberal Christians Organize ... November 18, 2003:
Clergy Leadership Network comes together to advance a partisan religious agenda. Liberal Christians have launched an advocacy organization dedicated to mobilizing voters in opposition to what they call a right-wing agenda.
The group, the Clergy Leadership Network, plans to officially launch its campaign Friday. Leaders say they'll operate from an expressly religious and partisan point of view — organizing for issues the left holds dear. Members include the Rev. William Sloane Coffin and the former head of the National Council of Churches, Joan Brown Campbell.
Clergy and Laity Network United for Justice
Lessee...Rev. Pennybacker, Chair and CEO of CLN
John Edwards and ACORN
Click the link for "Iraq STEP resolution." (it's anti-war, a statement demanding President Bush " withdraw all U.S. military troops and bases from Iraq."
Tikkun, Faith Voices for the Common Good"...
Oh, and these select names:
Additional speakers are expected to include: Rabbi Michael Lerner (editor of Tikkun), Jim Wallis (editor of Sojourners and author of God's Politics), John Shelby Spong (former Episcopal Bishop), Sylvia Boorstein (Buddhist teacher), Mary Elizabeth Moore, Riane Eisler, Joan Borysenko, Van Jones, David Korten, Michael Nagler, Sheikh Kabir Helminski, John Cobb, Arun Gandhi (grandson of the Mahatma), Carl Pope (chair of the Sierra Club), Welton Gaddy (chair of the Interfaith Alliance), Jeffrey Kuan, Rabbi Rami Shapiro, Members of Congress Lynn Woolsey and Jim Moran, Ched Meyers, and many others with a broad range of spiritual perspectives.
