Sarah Palin went off the deep end during her convention speech. Perhaps in her time in five colleges in six years she didn't have a chance to review her civil rights history, but her attack on community organizers (as being like mayors, sans responsibility) reveals a deep ignorance of American history, much less how thousands of Christians put their faith into action.

In graduate school I attended classes with a number of Jesuit Volunteers Corps souls who would relate stories of years spent on interfaith worker justice coordination and teaching in South-Central Los Angeles.

There's a good piece by Pastor Ryan Bell over at the new Religious Liberty blog. It was started by Michael D. Peabody, esq, and already has some interesting content.

Ryan writes: