Our friends at Sojouners put together this great list of letters:
- “Obama’s Harmony of Intellect and Intuition,” by Bono, Lead singer of U2 and co-founder of The ONE Campaign.
- “A Prayer for a New President and a New America” by Shane Claiborne, A Red Letter Christian and a founding partner of The Simple Way community, a radical faith community that lives among and serves the homeless in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia. He is the co-author of Jesus for President.
- “Intellectual Rigor and Vigor,” by John DiIulio, Professor of politics and public affairs at Princeton University, director of the Partnership for Research on Religion and At-Risk Youth, and first director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives.
- “Great Crises Call for Bold Leadership,” by Elizabeth Edwards, author of Saving Graces: Finding Solace and Strength from Friends and Strangers and is a senior fellow with the Center for American Progress.
- “All Americans at the Table,” by Angela Glover Blackwell, founder and CEO of PolicyLink, a national research and action institute advancing economic and social equity.
- “Tend to Your Soul,” by Rev. Wesley Granberg-Michaelson, legislative assistant to Sen. Mark O. Hatfield (R-OR) from 1968 to 1976. Today he serves as general secretary of the Reformed Church in America.
- “My Three Hopes for Obama,” by Dr. Joel Hunter, senior pastor of Northland Church, a megachurch in the Orlando area, a board member of the National Association of Evangelicals, and a guest lecturer in practical theology at Reformed Theological Seminary, Orlando.
- “President Obama: Honor Your Call to the Common Good,” by Lynne Hybels, cofounder of Willow Creek Community Church (in Barrington, Illinois) and author of Nice Girls Don’t Change the World.
- “Building the Capacity for Neighbors to Help Neighbors,” by Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, the former lieutenant governor of Maryland and author of Failing America’s Faithful: How Today’s Churches Are Mixing God with Politics and Losing Their Way.
- “An International ‘Teach for America,” by Nicholas Kristof, columnist, New York Times.
- “Abortion Reduction Key to Common Ground,” by Dr. Richard Land, President of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission.
- “Be a Friend to Yourself and the World,” by Brian McLaren, speaker and author, most recently of Everything Must Change and Finding Our Way Again.
- “We Will Be Measured by Our Treatment of the Least and the Last,” by Rich Nathan, senior pastor of the Vineyard Church of Columbus in Columbus, Ohio.
- “An Opportunity
to Translate Religious Diversity into Global Stability,” by Eboo Patel, founder and executive director of the Interfaith Youth Core, a Chicago-based international nonprofit that promotes interfaith cooperation. - “A Time for New Transparency,” by Sister Helen Prejean, prominent anti-death penalty advocate whose work was featured in the film Dead Man Walking.
- “Even More Will Be Expected,” by Richard Rohr, OFM –Founder of the Center for Action and Contemplation in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
- “Challenge the World with Mosaic Leadership,” by Rev. Gabriel Salguero, pastor of the Lamb’s Church of the Nazarene in New York City and the director of the Hispanic Leadership Program at Princeton Theological Seminary.
- “A Brief Observation on Your First Morning as President-Elect,” by Phyllis Tickle, the founding editor of the religion department of Publishers Weekly.
- “A Covenant with Every Child,” by Marian Wright Edelman, founder, Children’s Defense Fund.
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