Obama Names New Members of Faith Based Advisory Council

Yesterday President Obama announced his intent to appoint twelve individuals to President’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. Apparently this groups replaces 15 members whose one-year terms are expiring. (See prior posting.) The new chair of the Advisory Council is Susan K. Stern, Special Advisor on Government Affairs to the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. Other members and their affiliations are: Leith Anderson (National Association of Evangelicals); Andrea Bazán (Triangle Community Foundation); Angela Glover (Policy Link); Brian Gallagher (United Way International); Bishop Mark Hanson (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America); Lynne Hybels (Advocate for Global Engagement at the Willow Creek Community Church); Most Rev. Dr. Katharine Jefferts Schori (Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church); Rabbi Julie Schonfeld (Rabbinical Assembly); Archbishop Demetrios Trakatellis (Greek Orthodox Church of America); Sister Marlene Weisenbeck (Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration); and Reverend Elder Nancy L. Wilson (Moderator for the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches).