Religious Commentators Available to Discuss Internet Uproar Following Obama Faith and Politics Speech

Thursday, July 06, 2006

With more than 300 news articles and 1700 blog posts addressing Sen. Barak Obama’s keynote address at the Sojourners/Call to Renewal conference in Washington last week, the Senator’s message about faith and politics has become the buzz of the blogosphere.

Amy Sullivan’s Washington Monthly article and progressive religious blogger Pastor Chuck Currie’s observations, both of which praise the speech from a religious perspective, have been the source of both strongly negative and positive attention on the Web – depending on whose blogging.

Both Sullivan and Currie are available to discuss Obama’s speech and the controversy it has generated. Please contact Jessica Watson at Faith in Public Life to arrange interviews: press@faithinpubliclife.org, 202.544.792.

Amy Sullivan
Frequent commentator on religion and politics - Washington, DC
Amy Sullivan, an editor of The Washington Monthly, and has emerged as one of the leading experts on politics and religion. Sullivan has written on the topic for a broad range of publications, including the Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, New York Times, and The Washington Post. Previously, Sullivan served as a legislative assistant to U.S. Senator Tom Daschle and as editorial director of the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. She holds degrees from the University of Michigan and Harvard Divinity School.

Pastor Chuck Currie
chuckcurrie.blogs.com - Portland, OR
Pastor Chuck Currie, a United Church of Christ (UCC) licensed minister, is a pioneer of the progressive religious blogosphere. Chuckcurrie.blogs.com is one of the most widely-read progressive religious blogs on the Internet.

Faith in Public Life envisions a country in which diverse religious voices for justice and the common good consistently impact public policy; and those who use religion as a tool of division and exclusion do not dominate public discourse.

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