Evangelicals and the environment 8 August, 2007
Posted by Zack in creation care, Joel C Hunter, Northland Church, What are the Christians up to?.add a comment
Interesting story today in the Washington Post about pastor Joel C Hunter of the Northland (Mega)Church in Longwood, FL. This is the guy who was appointed to lead the Christian Coalition and then resigned when he realized he was going to be blocked from expanding the group’s horizon beyond abortion, stem cells and gay marriage.
Hunter is a great example of an extremely conservative Evangelical Christian leader who is nevertheless taking seriously progressive stands on immigration, health care, poverty, war and the environment. If you’re interested in taking a closer look at this movement of “revolutionary evangelicals,” check out the Washington Post article and the Joel Hunter links below.
- Joel C Hunter Bio
- Daily blog on religion and politics (with rockin’ theme music!)
- Most recent book: Right Wing, Wrong Bird
- NYTimes version of the Christian Coalition story
- Hunter is one of the leaders of the Creation Care movement. (CSMonitor Oped.)
Dean on now 2 August, 2007
Posted by Zack in 2008, DNC, Howard Dean, Yearly Kos.add a comment
He’s announcing a new program of the DNC to investigate and anticipate voter suppression in all the problem counties across the country. Godspeed 50-State Organizers! Go figure that shit out.
Dean got super standing ovations. A couple of people just walked in — when they saw Dean coming out on the stage they went berserk.
The revolution continues. At least here under the roof of the grand McCormick Place convention center.
AH! He just made reference to obstacles to change within the Democratic party. I wonder who most folks here thought he was talking about.
Michigan Bloggosphere on fire 2 August, 2007
Posted by Zack in 2008, MI, Yearly Kos.add a comment
At the Industrial States Blogger panel now. It’s just wrapping up. Just about everyone here is from Michigan—a really big group. We tried to get an explanation of how and why ALL of MI came. But there were only some flimsy theories.
At Yearly Kos 2 August, 2007
Posted by Zack in 2008, Dave Boundy, DNC, field organizing, Yearly Kos.add a comment
I didn’t come last year. I should have. There is an amazing energy here. I hope some of the journalists covering this will notice how un-stereotypical (I mean the journalists’ stereotypes about the Netroots or “Internet people”). Oh wait, I’m a journalist now, so I’ll try to write about this.
Right now I’m in Dave Boundy’s session on the ’08 Ground Game. Dave is the new political director at the DNC. He is one of the main people who built the powerful Labor political program at the AFL, so watch out.
Here’s his plan (from his first slide):
1. ORGANIZE EVERYWHERE
2. COUNT EVERYTHING
3. QUESTION ASSUMPTIONS
The audience liked that quite a bit.
UPDATE: Session ending now. Basically, Dave’s fighting hard and smart to rebuild the Democratic Party, combining new technology, good data, and old school organizing sense. Whoever the next Ken Melhman is, he should be very worried.
