{"id":386,"date":"2009-01-21T18:38:37","date_gmt":"2009-01-21T18:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/progressiverevival\/2009\/01\/harmonies-of-liberty-by-rev-dr.html"},"modified":"2009-01-21T18:38:37","modified_gmt":"2009-01-21T18:38:37","slug":"harmonies-of-liberty-by-rev-dr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/progressiverevival\/2009\/01\/harmonies-of-liberty-by-rev-dr.html","title":{"rendered":"Harmonies of Liberty by Rev. Dr. Sharon E. Watkins"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font: 12.0px Helvetica\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/\/\/9253F637-8643-47F2-B136-91F3C3DEDBA4\/283503-m.jpg\" alt=\"283503-m.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Rev. Dr. Sharon E. Watkins gave a rousing\u00a0sermon at the <a href=\"http:\/\/c-span.org\/Watch\/watch.aspx?MediaId=HP-A-14564\">National Prayer Service<\/a> today. \u00a0She was the first women to be given this honor and she hit it out of the park. \u00a0With Bishop Gene Robinson and Rev. Joe Lowery, Rev. Watkins rounded out a great weekend for progressive protestants. \u00a0It was also great to hear more voices from other traditions who can also offer prophetic witness and encouragement to all Americans in our time of need. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/oikoumene.org\/fileadmin\/wcc-usa\/files\/2009\/Obama_NPS_sermon_Watkins.pdf\">Read the text of Harmonies of Liberty.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rev. Dr. Sharon E. Watkins gave a rousing\u00a0sermon at the National Prayer Service today. \u00a0She was the first women to be given this honor and she hit it out of the park. \u00a0With Bishop Gene Robinson and Rev. Joe Lowery, Rev. 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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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