I'm Krista Tippett, today the first in a two-part series on politics and religion below

the surface of the U.S. presidential race.

The religious right has gotten a fair amount of coverage in recent years.

We'll explore the democratic party's complex relationship with faith and the little told

story of the left's response to the rise of the religious right.

There is still a very high bar for Democrats to prove that they are truly authentically

really people of faith and even once they have their positions on issues such as abortion

and gay marriage are still kind of held up to prove that they're not really religious.

Yet as we'll hear religious energies are out in the open in the democratic party as they

haven't been for decades.

This is speaking of faith, stay with us.

This public radio podcast is supported by the Fetzer Institute as part of its campaign

for love and forgiveness online at loveandforgive.org.

I'm Krista Tippett.

This week we begin a refreshing thought-provoking two-part conversation on politics and religion

below the surface of the current U.S. presidential campaign.

I'll speak with two counterintuitive yet influential voices.

Next week, conservative columnist Rod Dreyer.

We begin this hour with Time Magazine National correspondent Amy Sullivan, a political liberal

and an evangelical Christian.

She's also a savvy observer of the democratic party's complex relationship with faith and

the little told story of the left's response to the rise of the religious right.

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