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YES WE DID America has had a non-violent revolution.      As long as there are historians writing about the United States, this moment of fundamental re-alignment of our national purpose will be remembered, pored over and analyzed. It will be seen as one of the shining points along the evolutionary arc of the American story. Yet…

Was religion an important issue in this election?  Or was Barack Obama’s election a matter of economics?   Exit polls reveal that white Protestants voted in large numbers for John McCain for president–thus making them the primary religious group left in the old conservative coalition. However, exit polls did not break down “white Protestants” into…

For all Progressive Revivalists who are in the DC area. Please feel invited to this great event with some of  PR’s bloggers.  Make sure you RSVP below as it s filling up.  If you can’t make it, we will be posting the video of the event.    Please join the Center for American Progress and…

Forget the former things; do not dwell in the past. See I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up, do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland. Isaiah 43:18-19   Since last Wednesday, October 29th, “Moving Forward” by Hezekiah Walker and Love Fellowship…

(cross-posted on faithfuldemocrats.com)   Wow, what a night.  I know everyone is going to be writing about Obama and the incredible races and probably has more energy and insight than I at this moment.  But something struck me about the Alaska Senate race last night that seemed odd, and I haven’t heard it addressed.   …

Those of us who stepped up to the voting machine yesterday and voted for Barack Obama did so out of a commitment to radical change. What we got in last night’s victory was that and more. We felt awe and wonder — as a nation. Shouts of joy and thanksgiving and all sorts of spontaneous…

History was made last evening. Americans of all colors, ages, and backgrounds came out in record numbers and elected the first African American president.  I must admit that I struggle to find the words to express my joy and excitement about this moment in our nation’s history. We face so many challenges in the days…

The longest presidential campaign in American history is finally over. Did you support John McCain or Barack Obama? What issues were more important? Did your faith help shape your vote? Take Beliefnet’s 2008 election exit poll

Obama Wins!!!!!! Now the real work begins…    

Standing in the long line at 7:30 in the morning at my polling place today– a place where, in fifteen years, I have never had to wait at all, where nobody much bothered to vote — was an amazing experience. There were people I knew and people I’d just seen in the neighborhood– a poor,…
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