Dear Governor Patrick:
This supporter and volunteer still stands by you… but it’s been hard, and I fervently hope to hear you once again taking up the moral leadership that so many of us invested in you as governor of our Commonwealth.
I volunteered many hours helping you win the nomination and then the election because you [...]
Published today in the Boston Globe:
I was among the young Christians who traveled to Park Street Church last month to hear Jim Wallis’s call for social justice (”A New Generation Awakens,” March 12), and I can testify that a generational shift is indeed underway within American Christianity.
In [...]
Sozi Tulante is a close friend of mine from college and law school. He’s a Congolese refugee, married to a British woman, and lives in Philadelphia. In short, he’s an American, and I’d like to post his response to Senator Obama’s speech from Tuesday:
I am writing to ask for your support. Yesterday morning, I [...]
While Senator Obama’s address on Tuesday has largely been received as a call to national dialogue about race, the 37-minute speech also revealed much about his religious and spiritual views. In it, Obama clearly invokes core Christian principles and beliefs, from original sin to God’s grace. “Perfection” was his refrain – he invoked the word [...]
More evidence that the extended primary battle benefits the Democratic party: today our crew registered 41 new Democrats in the state of Pennsylvania. Because the PA primaries are closed (only registered Democrats can vote in the Democratic primary), the Obama campaign has been furiously registering supporters as Democrats, if they are not already identified as [...]
Sometimes life feels like a continuous narrowing of possibilities: the babies who begin with infinite potential soon learn that fire burns, that relationships can end in heartbreak, that some cancers are inoperable. Caution becomes am amulet against a dangerous world.
The human race survived because our ancestors learned to fear tall cliffs and dangerous animals. In [...]
I spent this past weekend stomping through snowy Vermont, going door-to-door in St. Johnsbury on Saturday and Barre (”Barry”) on Sunday. (Last weekend we’d phonebanked to Chelsea). On arrival in St. Johnsbury, we immediately encountered the most visible sign of Ben & Jerry’s endorsement of Obama: the ObamaMobile, driven by staff intern Erin. Talk about [...]
