Jim Wallis on How Obama's Faith-Based Initiatives Office Is Shaping Up
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building partnerships at the local level
If the President's Council for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships would like a model of how to create partnerships at the local level, they should look at a Community Faith-based Initiative in New Hampshire called Faithfully One by One. They are successfully creating partnerships between community and faith-based organizations and the Dept of Child and Family Services to support and recruit foster and adoptive families. They work on a small grant, which primarily funds the Community Liaisons, who work to create the partnerships.
Jim Wallis speaks
when there's someone to record & transcribe. Yesterday it was you, Dan.
Wallis and OFBI
Jim Wallis has been working effectively on the ground in D.C., and in print, as well as on the web, in the cause of getting help to "the least of these."
He has been a outspoken critic of the Religious Right, and a beacon of sanity in calling people to account for the social dimension of the teachings of Jesus and the prophets.
Sure, I disagree with him on some issues. That is neither here nor there.
Religious Left
I'm an active part of the religious left and Jim Wallis does not speak for me. Much of the religious left is pro-choice and does not show bias against the LGBT community. Wallis doesn't qualify.
Hey Comment 1...
Great comment. Not enough people recognize the bravery with which Jesus defied PilotCorp. We all know what happened next; but thanks to His strong anti-corporation stance we now have a shot at eternal life!
More, not less
Obama plans to focus on the faithful, to wean them away from the outrageous far right notion that Christians are to do nothing but 1) Embrace corporations, (2) Fight abortion, and (3) Fight gay rights.
Yes, embrace corporations. That's always been #1 in Republican land, even though the church people were duped to believe that #2 and #3 were #1.
Thoughtfully, Jesus never told us that a corporation is same as a person in matters of law. There is a reason for that. A corporation is not part of God's creation and is not person.
