Today, I invite you to join me at my meeting at the White House with the Obama administration. I’ll be meeting with advisers from the Executive Office of the President along with about 60 other Baptists around the country. You can follow the meeting below from Twitter or check out my Twitter page directly. On Twitter, we’ll use the hashtag #BaptistsatWH and you can interact there. Also, you can interact with the discussion on AlanRudnick.org by posting messages that will appear below using this link.
What’s the meeting about?
Robert Parham, executive director of the Baptist Center for Ethics, and Ricky Creech, executive director/minister of the District of Columbia Baptist Convention put the meeting together. Ethics Daily provides the scoop:
“We are expecting a candid exchange,” wrote Robert Parham, executive director of the Baptist Center for Ethics, and Ricky Creech, executive director/minister of the District of Columbia Baptist Convention, in a Feb. 14 letter to participants. Parham and Creech are co-organizers of the gathering.
“We will get to express concerns, ask questions, speak morally about the budget, taxation, immigration, health care, war, criminal justice, the environment and other issues,” they continued in the letter.
“We will get to share what concerns us as congregational leaders, what’s on our hearts as moral leaders, what community needs are pressing, what our churches do that works to advance the common good. We will also get to hear how administration officials see issues, how they explain their purposes and goals of policies.”
Plans for the visit began percolating roughly nine months ago, after a pre-release screening of the immigration documentary “GospelWithoutBorders” was held in the nation’s capital.
The documentary was produced by EthicsDaily.com, a division of the Baptist Center for Ethics.
Ethics Daily will provide updates on their website, so please check them out.
Check back Thursday and Friday for a complete break down of the meeting.
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