Democrats and the Abortion Debate

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/09/01/Richard_Land_and_Jim_Wallis_Faith_and_Politics Steven Waldman, Editor-in-Chief of Beliefnet, and Dr. Richard Land, President of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, debate the Democratic Party's recently revised positions on abortion rights. ----- Moderated by Krista Tippett, host of American Public Media's Speaking of Faith, this panel of conservative evangelical Dr. Richard Land and liberal evangelical Jim Wallis separates faith from any one party and defines a broad faith-oriented agenda - University of Minnesota Steven Waldman is the Editor-in-Chief and co-founder of Beliefnet. Before that he was the National Editor of US News & World Report and before that the National Correspondent for Newsweek. He earlier served as editor of The Washington Monthly, an influential political magazine. Waldman also was senior adviser to the CEO of the Corporation for National Service, the government agency that runs AmeriCorps and other volunteer programs. He is the author of an acclaimed book titled The Bill about the passage of the AmeriCorps law, which is now a textbook in college courses around the U.S. Princeton and Oxford educated, Dr. Richard Land has served as president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission since 1988. During his tenure as representative for the largest Protestant denomination in the country, Dr. Land has represented Southern Baptist and other Evangelical concerns in the halls of Congress, before U.S. Presidents, and in the media. In 2005, Dr. Land was featured in Time Magazine as one of "The Twenty-five Most Influential Evangelicals in America."

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