The cable program, which airs live from Radio City Music Hall in New York City, runs one hour. Palmberg is scheduled to be interviewed for five minutes beginning at 12:35 p.m.
A key subject of the interview is a full-page advertisement that recently appeared in the New York Times and approximately 50 other daily newspapers throughout the country under the heading “God is Not a Republican – Or a Democrat” – an approach that stirred considerable discussion in political, social and religious circles. The advertisement was sponsored by Sojourners Magazine and has been signed by 104,117 individuals, including Palmberg.
In his portion of the program, Palmberg hopes to address issues of poverty, hunger and social justice as religious issues that demand the public’s attention in the context of a national election.
Sojourners ministries’ mission is “to proclaim and practice the biblical call to integrate spiritual renewal and social justice. In our lives and in our work, we seek to be guided by the biblical principles of justice, mercy and humility.” The movement began in the early 1970s when a handful of students at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois, began meeting to discuss the relationship between their faith and political issues, particularly the Vietnam War.
To learn more about this organization, visit Sojourners. To read the full text of the petition that formed the basis for the advertisement, visit Petition.
(Editor’s note: For more information about Palmberg’s appearance on Fox News, see Palmberg Addresses Issues of Hunger, Poverty).
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