C. Welton Gaddy

C. Welton Gaddy

Leader of the Interfaith Alliance

The Reverend C. Welton Gaddy leads the nonpartisan educational organizations The Interfaith Alliance and The Interfaith Alliance Foundation, and hosts the latter's national weekly radio show, State of Belief. The “On Faith” panelist also serves as pastor for preaching and worship at Northminster Church in Monroe, La. Gaddy has written more than 20 books, which reflect his interest in the intersection of religion, media and activism as well as his progressive view of the Baptist church, including: I Give You My Word: Sharing the Language of Life with Walter Cronkite; Faith and Politics: What's a Christian to Do ?; Adultery and Grace: the Ultimate Scandal ; and A Love Affair With God: Finding Freedom & Intimacy in Prayer . Gaddy also is one of 20 religious members of the Council of 100 leaders, a group created by the World Economic Forum to foster dialogue between Western and Muslim countries. He has served in leadership roles at the national Alliance of Baptists, Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, Commission of Christian Ethics of the Baptist World Alliance, Board of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Pastoral Leadership Commission of the Baptist World Alliance, and Southern Baptist Convention. The Washington-based Interfaith Alliance was founded in 1994 to promote the positive role of religion in American life, and now has more than 185,000 members drawn from 75 religious traditions or belief systems. It is supported by 47 local activist groups and a cyber-network of 45,000 people. Gaddy earned his undergraduate degree from Union University in Tennessee and his doctoral degree and divinity training from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky. Close.

C. Welton Gaddy

Leader of the Interfaith Alliance

The Reverend C. Welton Gaddy leads the nonpartisan educational organizations The Interfaith Alliance and The Interfaith Alliance Foundation, and hosts the latter's national weekly radio show, State of Belief. more »

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Religious Leaders Must Avoid Partisan Entanglements

What I did not hear in Senator Obama’s remarks, but still needs significant emphasis is a clear statement that religious leaders should avoid partisan entanglements within houses of worship.

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Soja John Thaikattil, Sydney, Australia:

Dear Rev Gaddy

I wish you a wonderful Easter 2008!

Soja John Thaikattil
Sydney, Australia

rafamdergem:


what You shall find in MAnisa is a forest, but You may heal the History wherever You are seated.

Anonymous:

"in MAnisa were the students of St John and St Paul. Manisa is from "MAN ISAAC", "man jesus", this city is known with mental healing through water flow, relations were healed here, providing health and harmony with magnetics"


Then this is a good thing.

Anonymous:

V Racer: "Obama is a liar. His spiritual advisor is a racist and hates America. His suspect behavior and possible beliefs are but two or many reasons to reject him."


I agree. How is it that Americans think that hundreds of years of hatred and deep-seated racism of blacks against whites based on unforgiveness is going to be "resolved" because of one man is total ignorance to me.

Can one man change the hearts of all racist blacks? No

Can one man change the unforgiveness that blacks harbor and pass on from generation to generation? No.

Can one man that is a liar, racist, has a background of criminal behavior, has criminal friends, and has long-term friends that are racist "change" America? No

Only fools would put trust in a person like this.

haveyoueverbeento@yahoo.com:


volute :

A spiral turn, as in certain shells.

golden ratio, fibonacci series
wollen : to will

Corinthia : letters of St Paul
Corinthia : city of ancient Greece,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manisa

in MAnisa were the students of St John and St Paul. Manisa is from "MAN ISAAC", "man jesus", this city is known with mental healing through water flow, relations were healed here, providing health and harmony with magnetics.

haveyoueverbeento@yahoo.com:


and i think this language and the terms to carry these cases were lost under Sevolution, while sewing the solution into.

haveyoueverbeento@yahoo.com:


and i dont know about the terms verbalized for moon-sun-earth alignments and the drums played but if men in forrest boil man with vegetables, i think this means that the natives intended to teach their beliefs to the visitors. and the drums could be for intensing the energy in this alignment, maybe with making love which irritated the visitors.

rafamdergem:


what i wrote under Albert Mohler, in Character and Leadership article that moderators deleted later, are from the words that i had heard and it had stayed till i verbalized out here, under pressure.

haveyoueverbeento@yahoo.com:

"what is the difference, what did change?"
wisdom? presidents? governments? consciousness?

the Sun moved on its route, it moves too,
and the Earth didnt go astray but went to East Way.

there should have been eclipses, lunar and solar eclipses each day, for the orbit of the Moon is fixed around the Earth and the Earth whirls

Dr Charles:

Do not sow the seeds of hatred. Lest they consume thou.

Obama made an honest and non-political effort. It could have been easy to dump the pastor and look clean.

I agree that pastors (all of them) should stay away. They can teach principles but not get into politics.

I DO NOT SEE this happening, I just hope.

V Racer:

Obama is a liar. His spiritual advisor is a racist and hates America. His suspect behavior and possible beliefs are but two or many reasons to reject him.

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