Website Bridges Biblical Gap of Religion and Politics
Mount Vernon, NY (BlackNews.com) - GodTalkNow.com has hit the ground running with issues of relevant social, cultural and political significance in connection with the biblical text. The website is geared to religious faculty as well as clergy and those in the Christian faith community. But it also reaches heavily into the political arena by combining current issues with biblical insight. The goal of the site, says Rev. Ed Mulraine, founder and CEO of GodTalkNow.com, "is to confront the issues by connecting it with the bible as the main source of reference."
According to Rev. Mulraine, many preachers are talking politics and taking political positions on social issues with no reference to the bible as their source of reason. Similar to politicians who proclaim to be Christians but lack vital citation to the views they advocate and the God they serve. Rev. Mulraine says, there's been a total separation of personal faith and state. GodTalkNow.com expects to fuse culture and theology from the perspective of the African American clergy and faculty of religion. Issues such as abortion, gays in ministry, hip hop and the War in Iraq will be discussed by African Americans with biblical and political unification.
Many of the site's writers are clergy and faculty and are students and graduates of seminary and divinity institutions but also are heavily involved in community and cultural challenges for African Americans. The positions are highly opinionated but also scholarly written with references to facts and figures. The blog section allows everyone to register and voice their opinion on a particular topic and even challenge the political perspective and biblical interpretation of another writer.
Rev. Ed Mulraine, a civil rights activist, professor of religion and pastor, says the site will "fill the void of content and character that Christianity is so often missing, particularly in the African American community."
In addition to the issues, the site is available for the latest in Religious News, Convention and Conference Videos, Inspirations, Employment, Events and Advertisements as well as Rev. Mulraine's upcoming book The Gathering at Gethsemane.
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