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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