From FaithfulAmerica - passed on without comment.

[Joe for Clark]

Read that third paragragh carefully.
There should be no doubt at this point there is a christian left risisng.
Joe


Dear Joe:

Last week we urged you to consider being part of the DC-based Ecumenical Advocacy Days on March 9-12. If you are unable to attend, (or even if you are!) we hope you will also put March 16 on your calendar to join thousands of Christian lay people and clergy in Washington, DC for a Christian Peace Witness Event to voice your support for creating real security and peace in Iraq.*

Together we will share in an evening ecumenical worship service at the Washington National Cathedral with speakers including Sojourner's Jim Wallis and fellow FaithfulAmerican Celeste Zappala, a United Methodist mother from Philadelphia who has been speaking out against the war since the death of her National Guard son, Sgt. Sherwood Baker in April of 2004.

Following the service will be a candlelight procession to the White House, and a late night peace vigil, during which some participants may engage in “divine obedience” (civil disobedience) and risk possible arrest. We invite you to come to Washington, D.C. or to join similar public witness events in your community.

Learn more and register here.

If you are unable to come to Washington, DC on March 16, know that the Christian Peace Witness team is planning events all across the country. Perhaps you may help organize one in your community! See their website for more details.

Blessings to you in all you do for peace,

Vince Isner, FaithfulAmerica.org

[niyad]

1. the christian left has always been here. my friend who died in "05 was, in her own words, "one of

the scary ones, a LIBERAL evangelical christian", as were most of the members of her congregation, at least, those with whom I came in contact. these were people who actually LIVED the words they read in the bible, about caring, about stewardship, about helping, about BEING. Although I am not a christian, when she was going through surgery, and when she died, they included me as part of their commmunity of caring, for which I will always be most humbly appreciative.

I try to remember that it is THEY, not those fools up the street from me (fungus and new life) who represent christianity, not some political theocracy in the making.

[Joe for Clark]

2. I am not evangelical - the meaning that word has had

since this christian right came into power - has been really twisted.

All it means, now or ever - is that you are committed to "spreading the word"

For instance - Jimmy Carter was an evangelical - so was Martin Luther King.

There have been people claiming to be so - like Pat Roberston - but they are not, you know.

He and others - just out for themselves.

Anyway - be careful about this march. At least be forewarned. You really could get arrested. Those people doing this - a lot of pent up feelings about what some bastards did to our religion are going to come out of this.

This is a new thing to many of us - this ability to organize over the internet to stop the damage done to our belief system. It is safe to say, I think - this is just starting.

Joe

[niyad]

3. don't worry, I don't go to any events staged by anything other than groups I know well--and NONE of

them are christian. as I said, I am not a christian, but I am very active (hi boys!!)

[Joe for Clark]

4. I guess you don't know- those are not just christians.

I am - many are - but many aren't. And everyone respects every others beliefs - or I wouldn't be a part of it. We linked up though.

I guess I am glad you are very active - and please do not tell how you are active.

Joe