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Update: Open Letter to Franklin Graham

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We want to extend our sincere gratitude to all who signed the Open Letter to Franklin Graham in response to Graham’s original Facebook post on March 7. One month later, the open letter’s original team of writers, along with the Sojourners community, has been deeply encouraged by the broad support the letter has garnered. Thousands of faith leaders across the country have signed the letter with more joining in solidarity every day.

We thought you might be encouraged to see this updated list of principal signatories who have joined their voices to the thousands calling for repentance and reconciliation. Stay tuned for more ways to stay engaged in this conversation.

If you haven’t signed the letter yet, it’s not too late. Click here to sign the Open Letter to Franklin Graham.

Onleilove Alston
Executive Director
Faith in New York

Rev. Rubén S. Austria
Executive Director
Community Connections for Youth

Dr. Carroll A. Baltimore, Sr.  
President/CEO
Global Alliance Interfaith Networks

Dr. Brian Bantum
Associate Professor of Theology
Seattle Pacific University

Rev. Gail Song Bantum
Executive Pastor
Quest Church

Austin Channing Brown
Resident Director and Multicultural Liaison
Calvin College

Dr. Mae Elise Cannon
Author, Social Justice Handbook and Just Spirituality
Co-author, Forgive Us: Confessions of a Compromised Faith

Rev. Dr. Michael Carrion 
East Coast Conference Regional Coach 
Evangelical Covenant Church

Dr. Christena Cleveland
Associate Professor of Reconciliation Studies
Bethel University

Dr. Michelle Clifton-Soderstrom
Professor of Theology & Ethics
North Park Theological Seminary

Rev. Dr. Orlando Crespo
Latino Leadership Circle
Board Member, National Latino Evangelical Coalition

Rev. Léonce B. Crump Jr.
Lead Pastor
Renovation Church

Ruth Padilla DeBorst
INFEMIT-Latin American Theological Fellowship

Dr. Curtiss Paul DeYoung
Executive Director
Community Renewal Society

Rev. Phil Bowling Dyer
National Director, Black Campus Ministries
InterVarsity Christian Fellowship

Rachel Held Evans
Author, Blogger, Advocate

Rev. Dr. Robert Ferguson, Jr.
Senior Minister
Emerywood Baptist Church, High Point, North Carolina

Rev. Dominique Gilliard
Executive Pastor
New Hope Covenant Church in Oakland, CA

Josh Harper
National Director for Urban Programs
Intervarsity Christian Fellowship

Lisa Sharon Harper
Chief Church Engagement Officer
Sojourners

Jonathan Wilson Hartgrove
Director
School for Conversion

Daniel White Hodge, Ph.D.
Director of the Center for Youth Ministry Studies & Assistant Professor of Youth Ministry
North Park University

Rev. Jose Humphreys
Pastor
Metro Hope Covenant Church

Dr. Troy Jackson
Director, The AMOS Project
Co-author, Forgive Us: Confessions of a Compromised Faith

Micky ScottBey Jones
Director of Training and Program Development
Transform Network

Kathy Khang
Intervarsity Christian Fellowship

Steve Knight
Co-founder
Transform Network

Richard Kohng
Pastor
The Ninth Hour

Alexei Laushkin
Blogger
www.foolishconfidence.com

Mayra Lopez-Humphreys, LMSW, Ph.D. 
Director, Master in Social Work Program
Associate Professor, Department of Social Work
Nyack College Manhattan Campus

Rev. Michael McBride
Pastor
The Way Christian Center in Berkeley, CA

Jimmy McGee
CEO and President
The Impact Movement

David Neff
Editor-in-Chief (retired)
Christianity Today

Rev. Soong-Chan Rah
Milton B. Engebretson Professor of Church Growth and Evangelism
North Park Theological Seminary

Rev. Alexia Salvatierra
Coordinator of Welcoming Congregations Network
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

Craig Scandrett-Leatherman
Co-Founder
St. Louis Faith for Justice

Alison Siewert
Performing Arts Director
Urbana Missions Conferences

Dr. Andrea Smith
Board Member
North American Institute for Indigenous Theological Studies

Rev. Efrem Smith
President and CEO
World Impact

Alexie Torres-Fleming
Organizer, Advocate, Speaker

Harold Dean Trulear, Ph.D.
National Director
Healing Communities USA

Allen Wakabayashi
Pastor, Campus Minister
Twin City Bible Church
InterVarsity Christian Fellowship

Jim Wallis
President and Founder
Sojourners

Jonathan Walton
Blogger, College Student Organizer, Poet

Dr. Barbara Williams-Skinner
President, Skinner Leadership Institute
Co-Chair, National African American Clergy Network

Christian T. Collins Winn, PhD
Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology
Chair of the Biblical and Theological Studies Department
Bethel University

Tracy Howe Wispelwey
Director
Restoration Village Arts

Rev. Dr. Randy Woodley
President
Eagle's Wings Ministry

Ken Wytsma
President
Kilns College

 
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