Famous evangelicals stumping for Obama 19 September, 2008
Posted by Zack in Donald Miller, Doug Kmiec, Tim Roemer.6 comments
Sarah Pulliam at Christianity Today reported yesterday that the Obama campaign is launching a “Faith, Family and Values Tour” with evangelical stars, including Donald Miller:
Barack Obama’s campaign enlisted evangelical author Donald Miller on a tour through battleground states called “Barack Obama: Faith, Family and Values Tour,” a campaign official told Christianity Today.
Miller, Pepperdine University professor Doug Kmiec, and former Indiana Congressman pro-life Democrat Tim Roemer will speak to groups in community centers and gyms before taking questions. They plan to talk about where Obama and his running mate Joe Biden stand on issues like poverty and abortion.
The tour will begin next week and will last for about a month in states like Colorado, Indiana, North Carolina, Georgia, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Florida, New Mexico, Virginia, and Wisconsin.
The Obama campaign has done several of these tours in the past, including a 10-day “40 Days of Faith and Family” in South Carolina and a 10-day faith tour in Iowa last fall. The campaign official said that previous tours were focused more on fact finding and this tour will focus more on why people of faith and values support Obama.
Oddly, today David Brody re-reported the news as “exclusive.” His take:
Look, getting conservative Evangelicals was always a tough sell for the Obama campaign and it became much tougher after the Palin pick. But the Obama campaign understands that most people in this country consider their faith integral to their lives. The values and religion talk resonates not just with conservative Evangelicals but a whole range of people out there. It means different things to different people. Obama wants to tap into that and also stay true to the fact that his faith has been central to his life.
Video interview with Donald Miller 27 August, 2008
Posted by Zack in Colorado, Democratic Convention, Donald Miller.3 comments
Here’s a video interview by Christianity Today with best-selling Christian author Donald Miller at the DNC in Denver. Miller gave the prayer on the first night of the convention Monday. Read Sarah Pulliam’s intro to the interview and other postings from the convention here.
Donald Miller says here that he’s a “single evangelical who represents no one.” But it’s really easy to find young evangelicals who are saying exactly the same things that Don is saying here regarding abortion, political parties and politics.
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PS: Here’s Miller’s prayer at the DNC on YouTube:
