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Born in NYC, attended Oberlin & Trinity Schools, then Exeter and Williams (Phi Beta Kappa 1958). Worked with the Reverend James Robinson, finished Union Theological Seminary in NYC (1961). Joined Student Interracial Ministry in Nashville. Founded Renewal Magazine in Chicago, served The Christian Century and Christianity Crisis magazines. Covered civil rights in Oxford, Birmingham and Selma. Interviewed Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X. My book The Grass Roots Church had impact on the ecumenical movement. Have authored some 15 books, been a house-husband and father of three wonderful (grown) children. I have written published music choral and popular. Most recently I served in UN agencies including UNICEF in NYC and edited CHOICES which was the flagship magazine of UNDP.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, April 6, 2008 Alinsky, Governance, Democracy, Obama
Barack Obama has already begun the next stage of his campaign. It presages the widespread use of community organizing not merely for the fall election, but for well beyond.
SHARE Wednesday, April 2, 2008 Preamble to A Critique of James Cone
Martin Luther King, Jr., was moving beyond race at the time of his murder. Malcolm had already move past it on the plain of Mecca. Black Theology is a regression. Obama takes us beyond it.
(5 comments) SHARE Tuesday, April 1, 2008 Bill Moyers on Rupert Murdoch Cites Clinton Ties
Tis prescient video from Bill Moyers -- from prior to the Murdoch purchase of the Wall Street Journal -- notes a CLinton tie-in and should make you shudder for the future of Internet democracy.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, March 27, 2008 The Making of A New Obama Coalition
Hillary and Barack are alike in their ideas and program proposals. But they are like night and day in terms of capacity to make them a reality.
SHARE Tuesday, March 25, 2008 James Carville, Pat Buchanan and Hillary Clinton
The underlying issue is control of the Democratic party. Whatever is done will leave us either an Obama Party -- a party of a progressive middle way -- or the party under Clinton control where the basic strategy will be maintenance of the status quo no matter who wins, Clinton or McCain.
(4 comments) SHARE Monday, March 24, 2008 Democrats May Not Survive -- Here's Why
Allow your minds to drift to the future of the Democratic party if the present grim charade continues and Barack must up the ante to be the nominee.
(11 comments) SHARE Friday, March 21, 2008 Polls Should Favor Obama from Now On
Polls should favor Obama over Clinton and over McCain, now that he has regained his footing in the wake of FON's almost criminal attack on his character.
SHARE Thursday, March 20, 2008 Obama's Path To The Nomination
This is an inversion of an article in the New York Times about the narrowing of Hillary Clinton's changes -- this is Barack Obama's current path to nomination. And a meaningful completion of his campaign.
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, March 16, 2008 Steven Grossman's Departure from Democracy
Steven Grossman is a former DNC chairman who has written an amazingly antidemocratic note to his fellow superdelegates soliciting their support for Hillary Clinton. No takers so far.
(15 comments) SHARE Saturday, March 15, 2008 Barack Obama's Faith and His Church
The country is getting a needed education. FOX's campaign will not achieve their purpose. By the end of this more and more will recognize that what Jeremiah was saying was merely a recapitulation of what Malcolm X said, minus the threat of an eye for an eye which was also a part of Malcolm's message.
(24 comments) SHARE Friday, March 14, 2008 Our Crisis is Not Economic
Our crisis is not economic. It is not even political. There is a much deeper and broader crisis afoot. This post seeks to see what it looks like.
(7 comments) SHARE Thursday, March 13, 2008 How Barack Obama Can Move Beyond "Cult" & "Messiah" Charges
An analysis of the rock-star adulation of Barack Obama and of criticism of his "cult-like" rallies. How best to counteract charges of being a messianic movement.
(7 comments) SHARE Tuesday, March 11, 2008 Spitzer's Fall -- I Am Not Shocked -- Quel Rectitude!
Governor Spitzer's "fall" galvanized the newsroom of the New York Times and gave the MSM an entire evening of jaw-dropping and self-righteous discourse. There are better things to do.