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Jim Wallis & Richard Land to Take the Same Stage at ‘Q’ Evangelical Cultural Conference

Progressive & Conservative Evangelicals Seek Common Ground at Q Conference in D.C.The sixth annual Q Conference opens today in Washington, D.C. The initiative, headed by Gabe Lyons, is an effort to provide a platform for both progressive and conservative evangelical leaders (among others) to lay out their plans for a more prosperous Christian body — and world.

Q, a non-profit organization based in New York City, describes itself as “a place leaders can explore what that might look like and how God’s intention is showing up in the lives of their peers and the cultural projects they create.”

This, of course, means that a diverse set of Christian ideals are considered when it comes to tackling issues pertaining to sin in the world. So conservatives like Richard Land and liberals like Jim Wallis will be sharing the same stage, but will likely be illustrating very different ideals. Still, they will be seeking out areas of agreement.

In fact, according to the Sojourners web site, Wallis and Land will be appearing on stage together for a special, moderated discussion:

Jim Wallis, President and CEO of Sojourners, and Dr. Richard Land, President of The Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, will engage in a lively moderated conversation about the important issues that are at stake in the 2012 presidential election. While Wallis and Land often hold opposing political opinions, this dialogue will reveal some surprising common ground between these Christian thought leaders.

While the event, which mirrors a TED forum of sorts, is going on through Wednesday, you can watch the first part of today’s morning session, below:

Religion News Service has more about the event and its intentions:

With 700 participants gathered in a stately downtown auditorium, Lyons will play host to a distinct kind of Christian conference, one that seeks a respectful, constructive conversation on a host of issues confronting the nation.

Q, which stands for “question,” will allow 30 different culture leaders — from New York Times columnist David Brooks to Florida megachurch pastor Joel Hunter — to present their ideas for the common good during a two-and-a-half day confab.

“We feel we have a role to play in renewing the culture and holding back the effects of sin,” Lyons, who says he created Q after realizing how little Americans respect Christianity, proclaimed. “We’re not to do it in an antagonistic way. We hope to do it in a hopeful way that gives witness to the rest of the world in how things ought to be.”

Here’s the second part of the morning session:

Each of the 30 individuals invited to present are given three, nine or 18 minutes to state their position. Then, conference participants who are seated at tables, discuss what they’ve heard during each address.

The opening day of the Q Conference can be viewed free of charge via video stream from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. and from 7 p.m. to 8:45 p.m. ET. The embedded, live channel is also available, below:

(H/T: Religion News Service)

Comments (43)

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  • cemerius
    Posted on April 10, 2012 at 11:11pm

    Would be like Hitler and Netanyahu sitting on a stage together for a “friendly” chat!!

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  • edmundburk
    Posted on April 10, 2012 at 9:23pm

    Relax protestants, we have the same devide in the catholic church beteewn progressive and conservative bishops, although he here in americia, the progressive bishops outnumbers the conservatives.

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  • lukerw
    Posted on April 10, 2012 at 9:17pm

    GORBACHEV: ‘We must create a New Religion that brings all Socialists together, not only in Russia, but throughout the World’!

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  • TruthSpeaker
    Posted on April 10, 2012 at 8:23pm

    Evidently Dr Land hasn’t figured out yet that wallis is evil. wallis is a perverter of Truth.

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    • KICKILLEGALSOUT
      Posted on April 10, 2012 at 9:22pm

      Dr. Land is a progressive Liberal faking to be a conservative and every Southern Baptist should demand he be fired. He just recently stood in the push to support an resolution to support illegal immigrants in this country and saying that our laws are unjust and unreasonable along with a few other wolves that have made their way into southern baptist leadership.

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  • momsense
    Posted on April 10, 2012 at 7:19pm

    Any time a “Christian ” talks about social issues, you can bet he’s really not a Christian—only in the fact that he’s a Marxist hiding behind the Christian gospel.

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  • bullcrapbuster
    Posted on April 10, 2012 at 6:07pm

    Well the devil’s lieutenant is going to be there so lets hope that the spirit of the lord can prevail. Our prayers are needed.

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  • sawbuck
    Posted on April 10, 2012 at 5:59pm

    Hmm.. Dumb a country down on their faith
    Separate the sound teachings from the countries masses ..
    Then re-educate the masses about faith without any
    of them pesky “ Biblically sound doctrines”
    getting in the way.

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  • jsDway
    Posted on April 10, 2012 at 5:43pm

    Richard Land will need our prayers – going into a den of thieves! Satan knows how to turn truth into lies and good into evil. Satan is the power of the air until Jesus returns to gather the Christians home!

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  • kiddopup
    Posted on April 10, 2012 at 4:28pm

    Richard is not much different from the other moron he thinks illegals should get a pass amoung nother things I watched him at congressinal hearings and he is like alot of so called christians they hate the constitution

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  • Gypsy123
    Posted on April 10, 2012 at 4:22pm

    Reverend wright will fit right in.

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    • kiddopup
      Posted on April 10, 2012 at 4:25pm

      Richard is no different he thinks illegals should get a pass among other things I watched him on capitol hill and just shook my head the churches in this country are in big trouble

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  • TEARS FOR AMERICA
    Posted on April 10, 2012 at 3:47pm

    The new brood of vipers…I would follow not a one of them anywhere, anytime. If they called white black then I would know it is white…these are the ones recognized in Second Peter to be false teachers leading the very elect down the path to destruction…

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    • maccow
      Posted on April 10, 2012 at 4:51pm

      Lets usher in the Millennium right now.
      I mean a bunch of progressive and “conservative” theologians getting together to talk about society and sin in the least offensive, non-convicting, and therefore ineffective way possible. They will then all join hands and go join the nearest occupy rally. If the world is standing up and applauding the gospel you are preaching, then your preaching the world’s gospel.
      The gospel of Christ is a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense.

      Goats follow after any voice that sounds good.
      Sheep follow after the voice of the one truly good shepherd.

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  • SquidVetOhio
    Posted on April 10, 2012 at 3:41pm

    Still waiting to hear who the “conservatives” were. Crickets………

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  • Itsjusttim
    Posted on April 10, 2012 at 3:38pm

    Here is John Denver reciting the Lord’s Prayer. You may find it interesting, I know I do.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZzqzs1rzV8

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  • Mandors
    Posted on April 10, 2012 at 3:23pm

    “Q?”

    Isn’t that the campy alien from The Next Generation who causes problems for the Enterprise?

    Anyway, New York City? God’s intention? Not seeing a solid connection there.

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  • macpappy
    Posted on April 10, 2012 at 3:21pm

    Should i get the snake oil, or the hair growing tonic? Decisions, decisions.

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  • pwatkins
    Posted on April 10, 2012 at 3:20pm

    I might trust an attempt to reach common ground if Wallis would talk with Franklin Graham. They didn’t even want to allow him to share a National Day of Prayer with us. If a Rev. isn‘t going to put Christ at the forefront of reaching common ground he doesn’t deserve to be called a Reverend.

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  • IndyGuy
    Posted on April 10, 2012 at 3:10pm

    Dancin’ with the Devil….

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  • momprayn
    Posted on April 10, 2012 at 3:08pm

    This is another “bunch of baloney” idea. Aren’t there any real “wise”, humble men/leaders in Christendom? The things they need to agree upon, such as correct interpretations and sticking with the Scriptures only, repenting of past errors & agree about changing, and then actually living your life accordingly are never addressed. They all want to stay in their comfort zones and positions. Ridiculous.

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  • PIGSWILLNEVERFLY
    Posted on April 10, 2012 at 3:08pm

    Hold back the effects of sin??? We are not sinners because we sin. We sin because we are sinners.

    God’s Will; not man’s….

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  • EqualJustice
    Posted on April 10, 2012 at 2:59pm

    “On the last week of February, the Rev. Jamal-Harrison Bryant, pastor of Empowerment Temple in Baltimore, called together the heads of 30 black church denominations. He wanted to talk about how they could get more involved in social and civic issues. The EMPOWERMENT MOVEMENT.”
    I don’t TRUST these “PROGRESSIVES at all!. http://empowermentmovement.org/

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    • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
      Posted on April 10, 2012 at 3:09pm

      “He wanted to talk about how they could get more involved in social and civic issues.”
      ———————————————————————————–
      Like voting?

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    • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
      Posted on April 10, 2012 at 3:11pm

      Or, I meant to say, how to vote several times?

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  • Josiah914
    Posted on April 10, 2012 at 2:55pm

    Amen, Gonzo!

    Until you can get the likes of John MacArthur, RC Sproul, Al Mohler, Voddie Baucham, James White, Paul Washer, and others to attend, you don’t have a true representation of conservative evangelicals. This is more life James McDonald’s wishy-washy Elephant Room Conferences, where supposed conservative evangelicals allow liberal ones to walk all over them without defending the truth.

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  • SamIamTwo
    Posted on April 10, 2012 at 2:53pm

    Essentials are essential. Good luck on the mind melt. LOL

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on April 10, 2012 at 2:49pm

    If progressives are part of this gathering the question I have for them is this – are they for social justice and destruction of America or do they stand for freedom as given to us all by the Constitution and the opportunities to better ourselves based on our own efforts?

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  • Itsjusttim
    Posted on April 10, 2012 at 2:48pm

    Here’s some common ground: you’ve all been for the last 1000 years slowly dredging back up that One Antichrist – One “self” named Paul who told some lies mixed in with truth just enough to twist Christ into something else entirely. How’s that for common ground?

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    • Itsjusttim
      Posted on April 10, 2012 at 3:03pm

      Do you know what creates over through hundreds of years, more and more gay people? Telling people how they will dress and what and what not they will do. Yep, you cause all your own problems.

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    • Itsjusttim
      Posted on April 10, 2012 at 3:17pm

      Here’s a couple ways Paul twisted the truth: First of all the elders laid their hands on Timothy and so Timothy didn‘t need Paul’s in-put and guidance. Second, Paul said crucify the flesh, but it is that people should crucify the spirit because the spirit is over the flesh, and people should cut-off the portion that wants to serve the flesh. Third, Paul advised Timothy that women should dress moderately, but a Man doesn’t tell women how to dress because sooner or later women will rebel if a Man tells them how to dress. That’s just a few examples of how Paul twisted the truth, and there are many more.

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    • SquidVetOhio
      Posted on April 10, 2012 at 3:39pm

      Paul, whom both Peter and John aknowledged as an apostle? Paul, who is mostly responsible with the evangelization of the gentile world. Paul, who wrote most of the New Testament in an infalliable way. Paul, the apostle who was beaten, shipwrecked, mocked, jailed and utlimately beheaded for preaching the gospel is a liar. You’ve exposed yourself heretic.

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    • Itsjusttim
      Posted on April 10, 2012 at 3:42pm

      SquidVetOhio,
      You are a liar, and Paul teaches lies, and those scriptures you quote from are fabricated lies, because Paul tells lies therefore they would not have acknowledged Paul as an Apostle, and they were picked by Jesus as Apostles for a reason, because of the 12 children of Jacob. You sir are a Satanic liar, and accuser.

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    • VoteRightDammit
      Posted on April 10, 2012 at 4:16pm

      Timbo

      I agree you are a liar, but apparently you BELIEVE your lies, which is both very sad and at the same time understandable.

      A suggestion: Since you are but a HUMAN, and have not yet created even a single PLANET (let alone a solar system, a universe, a species …), consider the possibility you are NOT as smart as is God, and are NOT equipped to ‘correct His errant thinking’, and are NOT more God-like than is Jesus. Given that possibility, you may wish to just adopt a tiny bit of humility, accept God as being superior and smarter and more righteous and more correct regarding the proper operation of HIS creation …

      and just ACCEPT what He has said without your own little ‘revision’.

      Anyway, deaf ears and all, no doubt, but, still, a suggestion.

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    • MrMark
      Posted on April 10, 2012 at 4:19pm

      Don’t look now, but Rod Serling is standing in the shadows behind ITSJUSTTIM taking a pull on a cigarette.

      Yikes!

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    • Itsjusttim
      Posted on April 10, 2012 at 4:50pm

      Haha. Listen really…whatever. The truth is out there, and what you choose to do with it is your own damnation, but I truly do not know you.

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  • Gonzo
    Posted on April 10, 2012 at 2:45pm

    How can you seek common ground with people that misrepresent the Gospel?

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    • Mandors
      Posted on April 10, 2012 at 3:28pm

      You can’t. It’s their way of watering down, wearing down, and weakening people of faith.

      Report Post » Mandors  
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