350+ FAITH LEADERS ANNOUCE SUPPORT FOR JOE BIDEN

More than 350 faith and community leaders have issued an endorsement of former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Kamala Harris, adding new voices to the campaign as it ramps up its engagement with religious groups.

The list which is linked at the end of this post is a diverse list of religious leaders, many of whom are backing a candidate publicly for the first time.

The Rev. Fred Davie, a Presbyterian minister and executive vice president of Union Theological Seminary in New York, was the chief organizer of the endorsements, and who stated “Our country is at an historic inflection point and in desperate need of moral leadership.  This election presents a stark moral contrast between the common good values of the Biden-Harris agenda and the divisiveness of the current administration.”

Other endorsers — most of whom organizers said are acting as individuals and not on behalf of their affiliated organizations — include the Rev. Nadia Bolz-Weber, an author and Lutheran pastor; David Gushee, an author and Christian ethicist; David Beckmann, president emeritus of the Christian organization Bread for the World; Diana Butler Bass, author and historian of religion; Rabbi Jack Moline, head of Interfaith Alliance; Ron Sider, founder of Evangelicals for Social Action; the Rev. Jacqui Lewis, pastor at Middle Collegiate Church in New York City, Fr. Peter Daly, a Roman Catholic priest, Joshua DuBois, former head of the White House Office of Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships under Barack Obama; and the Rev. Amos Brown, pastor at Third Baptist Church of San Francisco, where Harris attends.

The endorsements come on the heels of last week’s unusually faith-themed Democratic National Convention, with prime-time speakers repeatedly referencing religion or making mention of Biden’s devout Catholicism. 

In the past, right wing religious leaders occupied most of the air space, but opposition to the policies and actions of Donald Trump has activated Christian and other faith leaders and laity like never before.  

Meanwhile, the Biden-Harris campaign’s larger faith outreach operation continues to work across the nation under the direction of Josh Dickson, an evangelical Christian and former Republican, who oversees faith engagement.  State level groups of particular faith traditions are operating at the national state, and local level.  By joining "Believers for Biden" on the campaign website, you can be included in these efforts.

Faith Leaders for Joe