ATLANTA (ABP) — Christian Ethics Today will sponsor an ethics conference June 27 in Washington, D.C. to address “The minister and politics: How to be prophetic without being partisan.”
The free conference falls one day prior to the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship's general assembly June 28-29, 2007.
Featured presenters are prominent evangelical Tony Campolo, Sojourners founder Jim Wallis, Minneapolis pastor Greg Boyd, and Melissa Rogers, former general counsel for the Baptist Joint Committee on Religious Liberty.
Philip Wise, president of the board of Christian Ethics Today, said ministers need help now more than ever with balancing their role in politics. And the speakers are “certainly qualified” to discuss the topic, he added.
Campolo, a former Eastern University professor and founder of the Evangelical Association for the Promotion of Education, will speak to the overall conference theme.
Wallis, CEO of Sojourners/Call to Renewal and author of God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It, will talk about the minister's role in social justice.
Rogers, a Wake Forest University Divinity School visiting professor, will focus on the minister's role in regard to church and state issues.
Boyd, author of Myth of a Christian Nation: How the Quest for Political Power is Destroying the Church, will speak on the role of the pastor.
Started in 1995, Christian Ethics Today is a journal produced by moderate Baptists.
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