{"id":118,"date":"2008-07-29T09:08:51","date_gmt":"2008-07-29T09:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/stevenwaldman\/2008\/07\/introducing-progressive-reviva.html"},"modified":"2008-07-29T09:08:51","modified_gmt":"2008-07-29T09:08:51","slug":"introducing-progressive-reviva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stevenwaldman\/2008\/07\/introducing-progressive-reviva.html","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Progressive Revival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the past 25 years, as the religious right has grown in influence, people would ask: where is the religious left?  Well, looking at the All Star roster of religious leaders, writers and activists, we can clearly see that intellectually it has never been more vibrant. It&#8217;s with great excitement that <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/progressiverevival\/\">Beliefnet launches the ultimate group blog for religious progressives.<\/a> Scan the bios and i think you&#8217;ll agree: this is a rather extraordinary collection of religious leaders and thinkers. They will use this blog to comment on the news, philosophically combat religious conservatives and argue with each other over priorities.<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ve been fortunate to have had Jim Wallis and friends on our site for about a year. In a couple of months, he&#8217;ll be moving his main blog back to his home site, sojo.net, though we expect Jim will continue to contribute to Beliefnet in other ways.<br \/>\nYou might wonder: why no religious right group blog?  We&#8217;re lucky enough to have Crunchy Con (alias Rod Dreher) as our premier conservative blogger.  In fact, we&#8217;re proud to say that as far as we can tell Rod now has the most popular religious conservative blog on the web.  It&#8217;s the ultimate compliment that we needed a group of 30 plus liberal luminaries to create parity with Crunchy Con.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the past 25 years, as the religious right has grown in influence, people would ask: where is the religious left? Well, looking at the All Star roster of religious leaders, writers and activists, we can clearly see that intellectually it has never been more vibrant. 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