You can't be evangelical and associate yourself with Jesus and what he says about the poor and just have no other domestic concerns than tax cuts for wealthy people.- Jim Wallis
When evangelical leaders can persuade the president to be concerned about what's happening in Sudan, or sex trafficking around the world, or HIV-AIDS, that is a very good thing. I am completely supportive of that.
What is my calling? What am I supposed to do? I think running for office, public office, can be a divine calling. I mean, I have wrestled with that very question myself.
We have got some mountains to move. Three billion people - half of God's children - are living on less than $2 a day.
We are prophetic interrogators. Why are so many people hungry? Why are so many people and families in our shelters? Why do we have one of six of our children poor, and one of three of these are children of color? 'Why?' is the prophetic question.
The media seems to think only abortion and gay marriage are religious issues. Poverty is a moral issue, it's a faith issue, it's a religious issue.
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The left and right are not religious categories. They're often not even value categories.
The great thing about social movements is everybody gets to be a part of them.
Sometimes it takes a natural disaster to reveal a social disaster.
So when the only domestic social policy is tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthiest Americans, we say, 'Where is faith being put into action here?'
No, we are not the master of the state, said King. We are not the servant of the state. We are the conscience of the state. The churches or the religious community should be, I think, the conscience of the state. We're not just service providers.
Martin Luther King Jr. really understood the role of the churches when he said, 'The church is not meant to be the master of the state.' We do not sort of take power and grab the levers of government and impose our agenda down people's throats.
If the president is going to use so much language of theology and the Bible, then let's use that language for a serious discussion about the war in Iraq. And that was never done.
I am often asked what I think about the faith of the President George W. Bush. I think it is sincere. I think it's very real. I think it's deeply held.
I think it's a good thing for a president or political leaders to want to put their values or their faith into action. Desmond Tutu did that in South Africa. Martin Luther King Jr. did that here. This is a good thing.
