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C. Welton Gaddy
Monday, August 4, 2008
Rev. Dr. Welton Gaddy is the
leader of two national nonpartisan grassroots and educational
organizations, The Interfaith Alliance and The Interfaith Alliance
Foundation, and also serves as the Pastor for Preaching and Worship
at Northminster (Baptist) Church in Monroe, Louisiana. One of
20 international religious leaders on the Council of 100 Leaders,
a group created by the World Economic Forum to improve dialogue
and understanding between the Western and Islamic worlds, Rev.
Gaddy is host of State of Belief, a weekly radio show produced
by The Interfaith Alliance (carried on AirAmerica), which is
based on the proposition that religion has a positive and healing
role to play in the life of the nation. Founded in 1994, The
Interfaith Alliance (TIA) has grown into a national grassroots
organization of 150,000+ individuals of faith and goodwill drawn
from more than 75 different religious traditions or beliefs with
a cyber-network of 10,000 activists and 75 local activist groups.
Dedicated to promoting mutual respect, cooperation and civility,
TIA strives to promote religion as a positive and healing force
in the life of the nation.
In addition to authoring over
20 books, Dr. Gaddy provides regular commentary to the national
media on issues relating to religion and politics. His appearances
include CNN Presents: The Fight Over Faith; PBS's NOW with Bill
Moyers; PBS Frontline's The Jesus Factor; PBS's The Newshour
with Jim Lehrer; NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw; CBS Evening
News with Dan Rather; ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings;
numerous National Public Radio stations including KQED's Forum
in San Francisco and KCRW's The Politics of Culture in Los Angeles;
CNBC's Capital Report; CNN's The World Today with Wolf Blitzer;
CNN's Inside Politics with Judy Woodruff; PBS's Religion and
Ethics Newsweekly; CBS's Freedom to Pray; C-SPAN's Washington
Journal; NBC's Dateline. He is also the former host of Morally
Speaking on NBC affiliate KTVE in Monroe, Louisiana.
While ministering to churches
with a message of inclusion, Dr. Gaddy emerged as a leader among
progressive and moderate Baptists. Among his many leadership
roles, he is the immediate past President of the Alliance of
Baptists and is a twenty-year member of the Commission of Christian
Ethics of the Baptist World Alliance. His past leadership roles
include serving as a member of the General Council of the Cooperative
Baptist Fellowship, President of Americans United for Separation
of Church and State, and Chair of the Pastoral Leadership Commission
of the Baptist World Alliance. He received his undergraduate
degree from Union University in Tennessee and his doctoral degree
and divinity training from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
in Louisville, Kentucky. |
