{"id":131,"date":"2008-09-09T10:21:56","date_gmt":"2008-09-09T10:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/progressiverevival\/2008\/09\/land-vs-mclaren-religion-and-t.html"},"modified":"2008-09-09T10:21:56","modified_gmt":"2008-09-09T10:21:56","slug":"land-vs-mclaren-religion-and-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/progressiverevival\/2008\/09\/land-vs-mclaren-religion-and-t.html","title":{"rendered":"Land vs. McLaren: Religion and the Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Progressive Revival is pleased to present the second debate\/discussion between two of Time Magazine&#8217;s most powerful Evangelicals: Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Convention, and author of Divided States of America;&nbsp;and Brian McLaren, Progressive Revival blogger and author of Everything Must Change.&nbsp;&nbsp; This debate took place after both conventions and offers two clearly distinct religious perspectives on this election, but with a civility often lost in the current climate.&nbsp; Progressive Revival is pleased to provide this opportunity. <\/p>\n<p>Watch the entire debate:<\/p>\n<p><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.bloggingheads.tv\/maulik\/offsite\/offsite_flvplayer.swf\" width=\"380\" height=\"288\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" flashvars=\"file=http%3A%2F%2Fbloggingheads%2Etv%2Fdiavlogs%2Fliveplayer%2Dplaylist%2F14162%3Fin%3D04%3A12%26out%3D07%3A59\"><\/embed><\/embed>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Why some progressive religious people are wary of Sarah Palin:<\/p>\n<p><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.bloggingheads.tv\/maulik\/offsite\/offsite_flvplayer.swf\" width=\"380\" height=\"288\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" flashvars=\"file=http%3A%2F%2Fbloggingheads%2Etv%2Fdiavlogs%2Fliveplayer%2Dplaylist%2F14162%3Fin%3D04%3A12%26out%3D07%3A59\"><\/p>\n<p>Are affirmative action premises obsolete<strong>?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/embed><\/p>\n<p><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.bloggingheads.tv\/maulik\/offsite\/offsite_flvplayer.swf\" width=\"380\" height=\"288\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" flashvars=\"file=http%3A%2F%2Fbloggingheads%2Etv%2Fdiavlogs%2Fliveplayer%2Dplaylist%2F14162%3Fin%3D33%3A56%26out%3D37%3A49\"><\/p>\n<p>The necessity of speaking the truth out of one&#8217;s faith, rather than hewing to party politics<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/embed><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.bloggingheads.tv\/maulik\/offsite\/offsite_flvplayer.swf\" width=\"380\" height=\"288\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" flashvars=\"file=http%3A%2F%2Fbloggingheads%2Etv%2Fdiavlogs%2Fliveplayer%2Dplaylist%2F14162%3Fin%3D42%3A25%26out%3D46%3A30\"><\/embed><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Progressive Revival is pleased to present the second debate\/discussion between two of Time Magazine&#8217;s most powerful Evangelicals: Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Convention, and author of Divided States of America;&nbsp;and Brian McLaren, Progressive Revival blogger and author of Everything Must Change.&nbsp;&nbsp; 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Paul B. Raushenbush is the moderator of the Progressive Revival blog and the Associate Dean of Religious Life at Princeton University. .An ordained American Baptist minister, Rev. Raushenbush speaks and preaches at colleges, churches and institutes around the country including the College of Preachers at the National Cathedral in Washington D.C., The Chautauqua Institute in upstate New York, and the New America Foundation. Rev. Raushenbush has served at Seattle First Baptist Church, the Presbyterian Chaplaincy at Columbia University and as College and Young Adult Minister at The Riverside Church in New York City. He has appeared on ABC World News Tonight and is a repeated guest on CNN. He has been quoted in The New York Times and The Washington Post and is a contributing editor for Beliefnet.com. His first book, Teen Spirit: One World, Many Faiths (HCI) was released in the Fall of 2004. 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