Religion and politics is a hot topic these days. And one of the very best places to talk about it online will be a new site called Street Prophets. Some of the names over there will be familiar to readers over here. Its the first of a promised series of “spin-off” sites related to The Daily Kos, and the effort is led by pastordan, who is also one of the founders of Talk to Action, which is still inching along to launch into a fully interactive site that will function much like Street Prophets.

So what’s the difference?

“Street Prophets is a place to talk about faith and politics,” writes pastordan. “That’s it. You’re welcome to hang around here, on the condition that you’re not a jerk or a hater.”

At Talk to Action, we will focus on the religious right as a political movement, and what to do about it. That’s it. (We will have somewhat more detailed site guidelines, although avoiding jerks and haters will be important over there too.)

Street Prophets lists this blog and Talk to Action as among the “friends of the blog.” And indeed we are.