General Meeting with Rev. Adam Russell Taylor

To begin our new series of General Meetings based on the question: “How do our spiritual commitments influence our voting patterns?” we welcome the Rev. Adam Russell Taylor to the Third Act Faith Zoom Room.

Rev. Taylor is president of Sojourners and author of A More Perfect Union: A New Vision for Building the Beloved Community. He previously led the Faith Initiative at the World Bank Group and served as the vice president in charge of Advocacy at World Vision U.S. Rev. Taylor is ordained in the American Baptist Church and the Progressive National Baptist Convention and serves in ministry at the Alfred Street Baptist Church in Alexandria, Va.

A progressive Christian, Rev. Taylor regularly speaks on topics including voting rights and climate justice, offering a perspective that Third Actors of any spiritual background can appreciate. As he writes in a recent article in Sojourners, What Can We Give The US For It’s 250th Birthday: “This [civic renewal] is about far more than the vital acts of voting and participating in elections. Civic renewal also includes the norms, practices, and actions that we can take every day to solve problems and advance the common good…” and “From the perspective of Christian faith, civic renewal is a way to live out the call to truth-telling and loving our neighbors as ourselves.”