LJ-SEC: (ORIGINALLY POSTED BY guldi)

It's a sad fact that progressives get together and mope, while the Religious Right gets
together and gets their people in office. Time that changed.

The fact is that we tend to mope in little clumps. I've been whizzing around YahooGroups
for the afternoon, and I've seen something like two dozen separate email lists of
progressive Christians -- some of them 200 names long, some of them 20; all very active,
commenting on the media.

By the way, Dark_Christianity is by far the most active of the LiveJournal communities.

But think about all the scattered energy of our many groups -- twenty something discreet
groups, none of them speaking to each other? It's good to talk; it's good to vent; but it's
much better to organize and do something.


The CrossLeft leadership team wants to do something about that. We're putting a big push
forward the next few months to recruit attention to the website. We'll be sending out
mailings (please forward them!), posting around other places on the web, and encouraging
folks to carry our banner and newsstream as a way of helping to get progressives in touch
with each other.

We welcome your ideas. Even more, we welcome your help. If this sounds like a good idea
to you, don't just sit there, help us tell people about it.

And in the meantime, to give you a sense of our commitment to helping progressive
Christians find each other and meet each other, check out the "LINKS" page.

I've put up links to most of the several hundred other discussion boards, blog-sites,
church sites, and columnists that feed into our StreamingChristianity newsstream --
including the half dozen YahooGroups that had public RSS-streams.

We want people to meet each other, and we're hoping that, if nothing else, vanity will lead
them here as people follow the addresses that list their own sites.

It's about more than that, though. This isn't just another blogrolling site or webring. We're
offering a major service with the newsstreams -- you can read the headlines that interest
you the most, already put together.

For instance, say you've got a lonely pastor friend, the only blue preacher he knows in a
red state. Send him to our daily-updated selection of headlines from blogs by progressive
clergy.

If anybody wants to swing over to CrossLeft.org, we hope you'll say hello, start joining us
in talking about a PATH TO ACTION for political and social change, post local progressive
Christian events in their area, and help us show how large the movement could be if only
we all showed up at once.