(as of May 25, 1995)
JOHN HURST ADAMS, senior bishop,
African Methodist Episcopal Church
LOUISE AKERS, SC, Leadership
Conference of Women Religious
MYRON AUGSBURGER, president emeritus,
Christian College Coalition
NATHAN O. BAXTER, Dean, Washington
National Cathedral
DAVID BECKMAN, president, Bread for the World
SCOTT W. BOLINDER, Zondervan Publishing House
MANFRED BRAUCH, president, Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary
VERY REV. GERALD L. BROWN SS, president, Catholic Conference of Major Superiors
of Men's Institutes
RT. REV. EDMOND L. BROWNING, presiding bishop,
Episcopal Church
CALVIN O. BUTTS III, Abyssinian Baptist Church
MARGARET CAFFERTY PBVM, executive or, Leadership Conference of
Women Religious
JOAN BROWN CAMPBELL, general secretary, National
Council of Churches
TONY CAMPOLO, evangelical author and preacher
[ Believes Jesus brings out the female in men ]
DANIEL R.
CHAMBERLAIN, president, Houghton College
JOAN CHITTISTER, past
president, Leadership Conference of Women
Religious
HARVIE CONN, Westminster Theological Seminary
GORDON COSBY, Church of the Saviour
JAMES H. COSTEN,
Interdenominational Theological Center
CAROL CROSSED, Seamless
Garment Network
Our mission...
We are committed
to the protection of life, which is threatened in today's world by war and the
arms race, abortion, poverty, racism, capital punishment, and euthanasia. We believe
that these issues are linked under a "consistent life ethic." We challenge those
working on all or some of these issues to maintain a cooperative spirit of peace,
reconciliation, and respect in protecting the unprotected.
ELLSWORTH
CULVER, Mercy Corps International
LYN CRYDERMAN, Zondervan Publishing
House
YVONNE DELK, Community Renewal Society [ Affiliated with
Points of Light Foundation ]
"How can I describe this movement
without using that much overused African proverb?" says John W. Gardner, former
member of the Johnson cabinet and founder of the citizen lobby group Common Cause.
Last year, as chairman of the National Civic League, Gardner launched The Alliance
for National Renewal, a coalition of 127 non-profit organizations determined to
renew a sense of community in the nation. (The proverb to which he refers is "It
takes a village to raise a child.") "Everywhere I go I hear people talking about
rebuilding community. And their instincts are right. A sound family is a tremendous
advantage to a child, but it's not enough. The parent has to know that when a
child walks out the door, there are others who care and will create a safe environment."
Franklin Thomas, president of the Ford Foundation in New York,
quoted in The Dallas Morning News, describes the community renewal movement as
"the equivalent of a nonviolent revolution, and it's not very well-known." Next
to come on board were 21 colleges and universities in the Atlanta area, who became
partners with the local clusters. When Colin Powell, then chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, heard about the Atlanta Project, he asked Gen. Edwin Burba, then
general of the Armed Forces Command, to get involved. "Gen. Burba called me and
asked what we needed. I said, 'What have you got?' He said, 'The nation's military
forces.' I said, 'We only need a division or two.'" Out of that partnership came
"Future Force," a program which used African American officers in a mentoring
programs.
Edgar Cahn, a law professor in Washington D.C., believes
a new kind of currency is necessary if we're to rebuild the extended family and
the neighborhood. Cahn has created a concept he calls a "time dollar" bank. It
works like a blood bank; you make deposits and someday, when you need it, you
make a withdrawal. An hour of volunteer service earns you one time dollar. You
can use these earned time dollars to buy services from other members of the program.
Or, as with ordinary currency, you can give it away. With support from the Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation, the idea has caught on. Today there are at least 200
time dollar programs in some 38 states, with 50,000 members. "Most of these programs
raise their own money, and support also comes from foundations, state agencies,
corporate agencies, and health maintenance organizations."
MARIE
DENNIS, Maryknoll Justice and Peace
REV. LESLIE DOWDELL, Community
Renewal Society [ See elsewhere ]
JAMES DUNN, Baptist Joint Commission
WILLIAM DYRNESS, Fuller Theological Seminar [ Now has a
"Chair" in Roman Catholic studies. ]
MARIAN
WRIGHT EDELMAN, founder and president, Children's Defense Fund [ Home Wreckers
No.1 ]
The Children's Defense Fund (CDF) is a private nonprofit
organization, providing a strong and effective voice for the children of America,
who cannot vote, lobby, or speak for themselves. The CDF goal is to educate the
nation about the needs of children, and to encourage preventative investment in
children before they become ill, drop out of school, or get into trouble. CDF
sponsors the Leave No Child Behind movement, dedicated to seeing that every child
has a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Safe Start, and a Fair Start
On a state-wide scale, Missouri requires that all school districts offer a Parents
as Teachers (PAT) program to interested parents. PAT was designed by Dr. Burton
White to help families with children ranging in age from infancy to three. The
Missouri program includes:
--Eight personal visits
per year with trained "parent educators" who are themselves parents. At least
three of these must be in the home of the family served.
--Structured
group meetings with the "parent educator" and other parents in the program.
--Screening of children's health, such as vision and hearing, and appropriate
intervention.
--Drop-in times at local PAT centers, during which
parents can ask questions while their children play.
ZERO TO THREE/National
Center for Clinical Infant Programs [ Children's Defense Fund Affiliate
]
ZERO TO THREE promotes measures to improve the physical and
mental development of children from birth to age three through exchange of information,
research, training, and public policy development. Among its activities are a
graduate fellowship program, training institutes, technical assistance activities,
the bulletin ZERO TO THREE, task forces to facilitate infancy research, reports
on research and public policy issues, and a national clearinghouse.
REV. DR. MILTON B. EFTHIMIOU, ecumenical officer, Greek Orthodox
Archdiocese of N. and S. America
TED ENGSTROM, president emeritus,
World Vision
REV. DONALD FAIRLEY, Avalon Park United Church of
Christ
DAVID FISHER, pastor, Park Street Church, Boston
[ Agnostic in the extreme ]
DR. JAMES FORBES, Riverside
Church
About Riverside Church-- City of New York
Programs: The church welcomes the participation of members and visitors in
all its programs. They include: Bible study and prayer groups, seminars and lectures
series for adults; Laity Empowerment, wellness and healing ministries, teams and
task forces (housing, AIDS education, peace and disarmament, prison ministry,
South Africa); Sunday Church School; youth programs; the Weekday school for preschoolers;
food and justice caucus; Maranatha (Riversiders for Gay and Lesbian concerns);
English Conversation Program; Pastoral Counseling Center; Black Christian Caucus;
Racial Justice Initiative; PS 165 School Project; coalition-building through Harlem
Initiatives Together; musical concerts.
The mission of The Racial
Justice Initiative of The Riverside Church is to combat racism. The Racial Justice
Initiative provides a confidential and non judgmental forum in which Riverside
members and friends share their perceptions, prejudices, and fears. We seek
change on the personal and institutional levels by recognizing, understanding,
and appreciating racial and cultural diversity.
RICHARD FOSTER,
president, Renovare
James B. Smith: Jim Smith is currently serving
as the Student Chaplain and Theology Instructor at Friends University in Wichita,
Kansas. He is a current student in Fuller's Doctor of Ministry program and is
writing his final dissertation in the area of Spirituality. He has also worked
closely with Richard Foster and Renovare. His most recent
publication is entitled, A Spiritual Formation Workbook: A Renovare Resource for
Spiritual Renewal
MILLARD
FULLER, president, Habitat for Humanity [ Can someone tell us if Millard
knew Buckminster? of
the geodesic cult?
]
WAYNE C. GORDON, Lawndale Community Church
WES
GRANBERG-MICHAELSON, general secretary, Reformed Church in America
BISHOP DR. C. MILTON GRANHUM, New Covenant Church of Philadelpha
FRED GREGORY, president, World
Concern
BISHOP THOMAS J. GUMBLETON, Catholic Archdiocese of
Detroit
REV. DR. RICHARD HAMM, general minister and president,
Christian Church/Disciples of Christ
PETE HAMMOND, InterVarsity
Christian Fellowship
REV. RAY HAMMOND, Ten-Point Coalition
STEVE HAYNER, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship
J.
BRYAN HEHIR, Harvard Center for International Affairs
WILL L.
HERZFELD, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
ROBERTA HESTENES,
president, Eastern College
LUTHER HOLLAND JR., Chicago Metropolitan
Association, United Church of Christ
GRETCHEN HULL, Christians
for Biblical Equality
TED KEATING, Conference of Major
Superiors of Men
REV. ARCHIE LeMONE, Progressive
National Baptist Convention, Inc.
BISHOP RAYMOND A. LUCKER,
Catholic Diocese of New Ulm, Minnesota
REV. TIMOTHY McDONALD,
Iconium Baptist Church
BISHOP GEORGE D. McKINNEY, pastor, St.
Stephen's Church of God in Christ
LOIS McKINNEY, Trinity Evangelical
Divinity School [ Morgue spiritually ]
GORDON MACDONALD,
pastor, Grace Chapel
LUIS MADRIGAL, Hispanic Association of Bilingual
Bicultural Ministries
KAREN MAINS and DAVID MAINS, Chapel of the
Air Ministries [ Have come full circle from faith to insanity ]
REV. MICHAEL A. MATA, Urban Leadership Institute, Claremont School
of Theology
BISHOP LEROY T. MATTHIESEN, Catholic Diocese of Amarillo,
Texas
JOHAN MAURER, Friends United Meeting
KEN
MEDEMA, pastor and musician [ Soft headed Hollander who abandoned the Faith
for fame ]
REV. DR. DONALD E. MILLER, Church of the Brethren [
Traitor ]
CALVIN MORRIS, vice-president, Interdenominational
Theological Center
BISHOP P. FRANCIS MURPHY, Catholic Archdiocese
of Baltimore
REV. DR. REAVES F. NAHWOOKS, Lincoln and Omaha, Indian
Community Churches
REV. DR. SUSAN D. NEWMAN, pastor, First Congregational
Church, United Church of Christ
DAN O'NEILL, president, Mercy
Corp. International
J.I. PACKER, theologian [ Can
anyone take this turn coat seriously anymore? ]
JOHN PERKINS,
Christian Community Development Association
REV. GREGORY REISERT
OFM Cap., executive director, Catholic Conference of Major Superiors of Men's
Institutes
REV. EUGENE RIVERS, Azuza Christian Community
RICHARD ROHR, OFM, author
BISHOP PETER A. ROSAZZA,
Catholic Archdiocese of Hartford, Connecticut
BRUCE RYSKAMP, Zondervan
Publishing House
REV. DR. PAUL SHERRY, president, United Church
of Christ [ Sodomy is encouraged and welcomed in pastors. ]
RON SIDER, president, Evangelicals for Social Action
TOM SINE,
author and lecturer
Sine, an Episcopalian, teaches at Fuller Seminary's
campus in Seattle, where he lives, and consults with church leaders in the Evangelical
Lutheran Church in America and other denominations on challenges of the future.
In Cease Fire, he takes up the concerns of millions of American Christians who
don't count themselves in either camp but want their voices to be heard--not overwhelmed
by shouting on the left and the right. They want their votes to count--not get
co-opted by candidates who divide people to win office.
J. ALFRED
SMITH, Allen Temple Baptist Church
REV. DR. GORDON SOMMERS, Moravian
Church in America
HOWARD SNYDER, United Theological Seminary
BISHOP WALTER F. SULLIVAN, Catholic Diocese of Richmond, Virginia
BISHOP MELVIN G. TALBERT, United Methodist Church
SR.
CARLOTTA ULLMER, Sisters of St. Francis of the Holy Cross
ELDIN
VILLAFANE, professor, Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary
JIM
WALLIS, Sojourners
We need to be cautious about this alarm. We
live in a time of social crisis. Such a time calls for renewed political vision.
And vision depends on spiritual and religious values. You need not be a member
of a church, synagogue, or mosque to appreciate this dependence. In fact, you
need not be religious at all. Most people would probably agree that beneath the
social, economic, cultural, and political problems we confront lie critical questions
concerning our deepest values, that our crisis is also one of the spirit -- deeper
than just the turns and twists of secular politics. And anyone who believes that
fundamental issues are at stake in our political choices can understand the need
for political renewal.
Such renewal will require the spiritual
resources of our best moral and religious traditions. In America, that means rediscovering
our Jewish and Christian biblical traditions as well as learning from Native American
spiritualities, appreciating the insights of other faith experiences, and remembering
the moral imperatives of the political philosophies that shaped the founding of
our nation. All have direct contributions to make in recovering our political
ethics.
ARCHBISHOP REMBERT G. WEAKLAND, Catholic Archdiocese of
Milwaukee
DAN WEISS, American Baptist Churches USA
REV. DR. JEREMIAH A. WRIGHT, JR., pastor, Trinity United Church of Christ
[ Leading Blacks to mediocrity ]
Do you feel like
your feet are dirty and need washing? Be
my Guest Please!