New Wine Ministers to Clement: “It’s On.”

Posted by Mary Mancini on August 24, 2007 under Uncategorized |

Rev. Victor M. Singletary and the “New Wine Ministers” are holding a press conference next Wednesday to discuss the responses they received from Karl Dean about his intentions, if elected mayor, “to redress longstanding substantive issues of the African-American community.” At the news conference, they’ll also address “Bob Clement’s failure to respond to issues of interest to the African-American community” as well as how will his “indifference be evident in his administration were he elected” and “What can African-Americans really expect in a Clement Mayoral Administration?”

Oh, snap. That Clement campaign office on Jefferson Street appears to be all flash and no substance. That said, the Congressman still has between now and next Wednesday to get his answers in the hands of the ministers.

The African-American Clergy Press Conference will be held next Wednesday, 29 August 2007, at 10am at the Fifteenth Avenue Baptist Church, 1203 9th Avenue North, Nashville TN 37203.

Not knowing the “New Wine Ministers,” I spoke to Reverend Singletary who explained that they are a progressive-minded group who take their name from the biblical passage, “And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine will burst the wineskins and be spilled, and the wineskins will be ruined.” Their issues of concern are social justice issues - food security, diversity, affordable housing, income disparity, etc. - and they describe what they are doing as a ministerial paradigm shift.

We’ll see you there!

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