Help me out here: I can't think of ONE famous liberal WHITE...

[liberalitch]

Preachers, pastors, reverend,.... there are some priests and rabbis

[MH1]

1. Jim Wallis?

http://www.sojo.net/index.cfm?action=about_us.display_staff&staff=wallis

On edit: I guess he's not that famous though, even though he's made the rounds of the media lately.

[Joy Anne]

18. famous or not

His books, including the latest, are best-sellers, which makes him pretty famous.

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. Daniel Berrigan

http://archives.tcm.ie/businesspost/2002/08/11/story390232628.asp#

A priest, but a great activist.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

52. My client, and

my friend.

Phil, too. I wish he were still with us.

[Beware the Beast Man]

While he's registered Democrat, I wouldn't exactly peg him as liberal-

Billy Graham.

[ultraist]

22. Billy Graham is NOT a liberal. n/t

[FreedomAngel82]

29. Graham is probably

more like the Clinton's if he still is a democrat.

[AirmensMom]

46. Graham is a democrat.

I saw an interview where he said so ...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8326362/

Couric: I read, though, that you're a Democrat. Is that true?

Graham: Yes. I am.

Couric: Do you think people would be surprised to learn that? Because generally, in this day and age, Evangelical Christians are closely associated with the Republican Party.

Graham: Well, I don't know that. I've never found out who they're associated with. Locally, I'll vote one way and nationally, maybe another.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

48. Compared To Falwell , His Own Son, And Pat Robertson He Is

eom

[Beware the Beast Man]

56. No, but he's actually much more moderate than I believed.

[longship]

3. Bernie Sanders.

FDR
Thomas Jefferson.

There's lots of them. Just not very many of them alive and active today.

Ooops! you did say preachers.

Well, there are plenty in the Church of Christ (Congregationalists) and the Unitarians.

Many catholic priests, too. I can't think of any that are prominent, though.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

Bishop John Spong

Episcopal Church. Google him. I'm still thinking of more names for you.

[Smarmie Doofus]

19. I love Spong. Great books. Good debater.

Not enough for me to embrace religion.... but I think he's great.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

23. I don't agree with everything he says

but I admire his passion

[Smarmie Doofus]

37. Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism... check it out.

[htuttle]

4. Liberal preachers don't tend to buy television stations

They usually find more appropriate uses for church funds.

:shrug:

[Ladyhawk]

15. I'm wondering if television may not be an appropriate use at this point.

The right wing has some "christians" believing that theirs is the only valid point of view.

[HereSince1628]

5. Do you mean living or dead?

[TallahasseeGrannie]

6. Gene Robinson

Episcopal Bishop of New Hampshire

[DJ MEW]

7. Rev. V. Gene Robinson

He was that gay Bishop in the Episcopal Church.

No one has really heard about him since his confirmation though.

[madrchsod]

8. there were alot in the 60`s

those`s names escape me--hey i`m old--! really a ministers are supposed to stay out of "politics" and tend to their folk...but of course they do speak out they are silenced by the media...
try this site---http://www.jesusonthefamily.org/
and there others inclluding a minister from my town who has been active in his church since the 80`s fighting bush`s war in central america

[Joy Anne]

20. liberal clergy and the media

Hey, when we in the United Church of Christ tried to buy network ad time, they wouldn't sell it to us. They really do silence liberal media.

BTW, nice website--thanks!

[TallahasseeGrannie]

9. Rabbi Harold Kushner

author of "When Bad Things Happen to Good People" and considered to be a liberal

[TallahasseeGrannie]

10. Both Berrigan brothers

But I am not sure if they are still living or not.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

53. Daniel is with us still,

living in NYC, not in great health.

Phil died a few years back, but his widow and kids are doing fine poverty and civil disobedience work out of Maryland and NY.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

11. Archbishop Oscar Romero

but he's dead... assassinated.

http://thewitness.org/article.php?id=895

[murray hill farm]

12. Jane Goodall..

In every aspect of being! Plus u all need a woman on this list.

[William769]

13. Reverend Troy Perry

Metropolitan Community Church

[charlie]

14. Bill Moyers

Baptist minister.

[Sugarcoated]

16. Jim Wallis

He wrote "How the right gets it wrong and the Left doesn't get it"
He's not quite officially a minister I don't think, but pretty darn close.

[Perky]

59. Tony Campolo

[Perky]

60. He most certainly is a minister

Sojourners Church in DC

[melody]

17. There are a lot of white liberal religious folk

Religion isn't part of our immediate existence in Angloland, whereas ministers have often been at the forefront of social justice fights (and simply fighting to survive) in the African-American community. And none of us have to wrap ourselves in the pseudo-Jesus flags like the far-right fundies do.

[Octafish]

21. William Sloan Coffin

From American President

There was more to the apparent disconnect between Bush and Yale than the young frat boy’s study habits. As both sides attest, there was a cultural estrangement as well. Yale, having been radicalized by the Vietnam War like so many other universities, would be a different place in 1968 than it was in 1964, and Bush did not change with it. He learned early on that this was not his father’s Yale. As a freshman, Bush approached university chaplain William Sloan Coffin and mentioned his dad, who had just lost a bruising Senate race in Texas to Democrat Ralph Yarborough. “Oh yes, I know your father,” Coffin replied. “And frankly, he was beaten by a better man.”

Source:

http://www.americanpresident.org/history/bushgeorgew/biography/lifebeforethepresidency.common.shtml

[cantstandbush]

24. St. Augustine.

[RagAss]

28. Good one.......and my hometown to boot !!!!!

[TallahasseeGrannie]

25. Here are two: A married couple

Bill Wylie Kellerman
Jeannie Wylie Kellerman

[TallahasseeGrannie]

26. ME

Oh, but I'm not famous.

But I am kind of infamous. Does that count?

[Az]

27. Bishop Spong and Rabbi Sherwin Wine are the two that leap to my mind

Of course... both of them are atypical members of the clergy.

[POAS]

35. Rev. Barry Lynn

of Americans United for Separation of Church and State

[proud patriot]

42. Bishop Spong is who I was thinking of too

:thumbsup:

[NWHarkness]

30. Thomas Gumbleton

Catholic auxilary bishop in Detroit, a long time peace activist.

[Rose Siding]

31. William Sloane Coffin

http://www.pbs.org/now/society/coffin.html

[bluestateguy]

32. Reverend Barry Lynn

Founder of Americans United for Separation of Church and State.

[BIG Sean]

33. Reverand Al Sharpton!

Say what you want about the man, but I love the guy.

Rev. Al is the man!

[Az]

34. Um... don't know how to break this to you

But the Rev Al.... he's ... um .... well ya see... he's black.

[BIG Sean]

47. LOL...I am a moron!...Sorry...and Thanks!

nt

[MADem]

36. But Al ain't WHITE

The search on this thread is for white liberal religious folk!

[Smarmie Doofus]

38. Any room here for Joey Bishop? Jason Priestly?...ok, sorry.

[Arugula Latte]

39. How about Jesus?

:shrug:

[Arugula Latte]

41. Let me clarify: Jesus was probably a brown person

but in the minds of many mainstream American X-tains he's a northern European looking dude.

[slampoet]

40. i was gonna say Jesus...

but he wasn't white.

[zbdent]

43. George W. Bush

well, according to some fundies right now . . .

[Az]

44. Ok, 5 points for thinking outside the box

But minus several brazillion for making me ralph on my keyboard.

:puke: :puke: :puke:

[mandyky]

45. Robert Fulghum Sr.

Universalist preacher and author of anecdotal humor books such as Everything I Need to Know (I Learned in Kindergarten)

[oldlady]

49. Rev Cheesehead

might be white and more famous than we know...

[landdaddy]

50. Reverend Billy?

http://www.revbilly.com/
:shrug:

[Rabrrrrrr]

51. William Coffin, John Thomas, Jim Wallis, Tony Campolo,

(though Tony is more moderate theologically, he's a pretty good liberal socially), Paul Sherry (past Pres. of the UCC),

John Thomas the one I mentioned in the subject line) is the current President and General Minister of the UCC, and he spoke at the Sept. 25 DC rally.

[Lethe]

54. this dude:

http://chelseagreen.com/2005/items/americafascismgod

[sandnsea]

55. Sister Joan Chittister

http://www.nationalcatholicreporter.org/fwis/

Still lots of liberal priests and nuns. A whole bunch of nuns campaigned for Kerry, manned phones, went door to door, etc.

[Kurovski]

57. There are a bunch of them listed on wikepedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Christianity

The Right Reverend Doctor John Shelby Spong

Albert Schweitzer was a missionary and New testament scholar. Does that count?

[AnnieBW]

58. (Former) Father Matthew Fox

Liberal Catholic priest that was excommunicated by Cardinal Ratzinger, now the Pope.

[Telly Savalas]

61. Tommy Douglas: father of universal healthcare in Canada

[muriel_volestrangler]

62. Archbishop Trevor Huddleston

"If you could say that anybody single-handedly made apartheid a world issue then that person was Trevor Huddleston" - Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

An appreciation from the ANC.

And as well as his work against apartheid, he gave Hugh Masekela his first trumpet. How cool is that?