Frederick Clarkson is an independent journalist, author and lecturer who has written about politics and religion for twenty five years.

He is most recently, the editor of Dispatches from the Religious Left: The Future of Faith and Politics in America, Ig Publishing, October 2008.

He is the co-founder of Talk to Action, a group blog dedicated to reporting on and analysis of the Religious Right and is a member of the editorial board of The Public Eye magazine.