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All Politics Is Religious: Speaking Faith to the Media, Policy Makers and Community (Walking Together, Finding the Way)

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Faith grows when we uphold its vision for a better world and speak of it in the public square―while keeping church and state separate.

"Dealing with a splintered media, with its new opportunities and challenges requires being able to mix the facts with the feelings in appropriate measures for the audience you are trying to reach. Reading this book will not make you as glib as your favorite newscaster (who is probably reading a teleprompter) or as dashing or beautiful as a Hollywood celebrity, but it will make you less fearful, better trained and more likely to be used as a source again."
―from the Foreword by Rev. Barry W. Lynn

A practical and empowering resource. It provides ideas and strategies for expressing a clear, forceful and progressive religious point of view that is all too often overlooked and under-represented in public discourse. It identifies the religious themes in today's great debates―gay rights, the needs of children and families, church-state separation and reproductive rights, including access to sex education, contraception and abortion care―and presents new language and methods for effective communication with the media, policy makers and community. It steers away from the polemics and jargon of politics―left, right, liberal, conservative, socialist―and instead relies on factual historical examples, current events and personal stories to illustrate the best ways to communicate the positive role faith can play in personal and public life by reinforcing the separation of church and state.

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Book details

Author
Dennis Ross
Imprint
SkyLight Paths, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
Published
Formats
Paperback, Hardcover
Subjects
Religion › Religion, Politics & State
Religion › Leadership
ISBN-13
9781594733741 (Paperback)9781681629735 (Hardcover)

About the author

RABBI DENNIS S. ROSS is a reproductive rights advocate and the author of All Politics Is Religious: Speaking Faith to the Media, Policy Makers and Community and God in Our Relationships: Spirituality between People from the Teachings of Martin Buber.

Ross serves as director of Concerned Clergy for Choice at the Education Fund of Family Planning Advocates of New York State, a multifaith network of religious leaders from Baptist, Episcopal, Lutheran, Methodist, Presbyterian, Unitarian Universalist, United Church of Christ, Jewish, Buddhist and Islamic traditions. He also consults to Planned Parenthood on clergy organizing, religion in the media and religious lobbying.

When he’s not writing, Ross speaks regularly on religion and the media at professional conferences, college campuses, houses of worship and health centers. His books draw on that work at the intersection of faith, politics and reproductive rights.

Format: Paperback