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Friday, June 22, 2007
United States Senator Barack Obama, a member of Trinity United Church of Christ, will address the 10,000 members of the United Church of Christ gathered in Hartford, CT this weekend for the General Synod of our denomination.
You can watch the speech live on Saturday at www.ucc.org at 2:30 PM (Eastern) / 11:30 AM (Pacific).
Religion News Service reports:
Joshua DuBois, the Obama campaign's director of religious affairs, said the senator's Synod speech on Saturday will be his first major address on faith and politics as a presidential candidate.
The address, DuBois said, will combine personal details about Obama's religious experiences with prescriptions for how religious Americans might put their faith into action.
It will also focus on "the growing movement of people of faith" from a variety of traditions, "coming together around our connections as a people and using those connections to address our common challenges," DuBois said.
Shaun Casey, an adviser to the Obama campaign and a professor of ethics at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C., said he expects the address to be "as detailed an account of how a person's faith shapes his policies as I have seen from any presidential candidate."
As I have noted previously, Senator Obama is the candidate I am backing for president.
Starting today there will be live coverage of much of General Synod. A schedule is available here.