Who is Barack Obama Series: Faith/Politics

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On June 28 2006, Senator Obama spoke in Washington at the Call to Renewal Conference sponsored by Sojourners.

Sojourners/call to renewal is a progressive christian group. Their mission is to articulate the biblical call to social justice, inspiring hope and building a movement to transform individuals, communities, the church, and the world. Sojourners differentiate from other Evangelicals in their condemning of corporate excesses, and the exploitation of people in third-world.


Barack Obama spoke of the role of religion in politics.

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"This is why, if we truly hope to speak to people where they're at - to communicate our hopes and values in a way that's relevant to their own - we cannot abandon the field of religious discourse.

Because when we ignore the debate about what it means to be a good Christian or Muslim or Jew; when we discuss religion only in the negative sense of where or how it should not be practiced, rather than in the positive sense of what it tells us about our obligations towards one another; when we shy
away from religious venues and religious broadcasts because we assume that we will be unwelcome - others will fill the vacuum, those with the most insular views of faith, or those who cynically use religion to justify partisan ends.

In other words, if we don't reach out to evangelical Christians and other religious Americans and tell them what we stand for, Jerry Falwell's and Pat Robertson's will continue to hold sway."
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