Blogging Pedagogy

In 2006, Barack Obama delivered the keynote address at Call to Renewal's Building a Covenant for a New America conference. The conference was generally calling for increased attention to poverty, and in his keynote (available in full here: http://obama.senate.gov/speech/060628-call_to_renewal/ ), Obama focused on the importance of religious rhetoric in politics: "if we truly hope to speak to people where they're at - to communicate our hopes and values in a way that's relevant to their own - then as progressives, we cannot abandon the field of religious discourse."