Amy Sullivan Bio
Amy Sullivan is a national correspondent for TIME magazine, and author of the book The Party Faithful: How and Why Democrats are Closing the God Gap. Sullivan’s work has appeared in publications including the Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, and The Washington Post, and was included in The Best Political Writing 2006. She is a frequent guest on radio and television talk shows.Previously, Sullivan served as an editor of The Washington Monthly, and worked for both the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life and U.S. Senator Tom Daschle. She holds degrees from the University of Michigan and Harvard Divinity School.
Salon.com writes,
Amy Sullivan is a senior editor at Time, a liberal Democrat, and an evangelical Christian. One of those things is not supposed to be like the others, but she argues in her new book that her fellow Democrats need to reach out to her fellow evangelicals if they hope to build an electoral majority. In “The Party Faithful: How and Why Democrats Are Closing the God Gap,” Sullivan describes how Democrats like Gov. Jennifer Granholm have won over white evangelical voters without changing sides on such hot-button issues as gay marriage and abortion. Sullivan spoke to Salon about the importance of language in reaching out to evangelicals, the supposed decline of the religious right, and why Democrats should court religious voters when they are doing so well among an even-faster growing demographic: people with no religious affiliation at all.