I've been reading some ancient history from the 1990's about Call for Renewal, an attempt to counter the Christian Right and occasionally also the Left with an organized spiritual-political movement that transcended political party lines. It was an outgrowth of the Sojourners community in Washington, D.C., which eventually merged back into it.
The Sojourners history page on their website says that Call for Renewal was focused on the issue of poverty, but Jim Wallis' book "Who Speaks for God?" focused more on opposing Pat Robertson and the Christian Coalition. I'm not very familiar with Pat Robertson, but his quotes in the book have held up quite well.
I also found a speech by Obama, titled "Our Past, Our Future & Vision for America", which was the keynote speech at Call for Renewal's Building a New Covenant for America conference, on June 28, 2006.
Obama related how he became a Christian-with-doubts, and said that Christians must find common moral ground with others in order to achieve political objectives.
I found a copy of the covenant itself on a site that is probably loaded with computer viruses. It leans liberal.
http://obamaspeeches.com/081-Call-to-Renewal-Keynote-Address-Obama-Speech.htm
A boomer apologizes, albeit without much clarity.
"It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs," Jesus said; Matthew 15:26.
I recently understood that I am spending my life in rebuilding spiritual and practical foundations that had been foolishly undermined by previous generations.
Several months ago I was reading a nonfiction book by Christian author Paul Tournier, and made it about three-quarters of the way through before being drawn away to other things.
When I picked it up this last week and finished reading it, I found references to about a dozen Bible passages that had come up in my daily Bible readings in the interim, mostly obscure Old Testament personages with a variety of afflictions; Tournier was a Swiss doctor famous for connecting his Christianity with his medical practice.
I also read a Christian fiction book this last week: Deadline, by Randy Alcorn. One day, what I read in the book mirrored my morning Bible reading on that same day.
"A work of creation was three-fold, an earthly trinity to match the heavenly; the Creative Idea, timeless and passionate, which is the image of the Father; the Creative Energy, begotten of the idea and working in time, which is the image of the Word; the Creative Power, the meaning of the work and its response in the individual soul, which is the image of the indwelling Spirit."
-- P. D. James, summarizing Dorothy L. Sayers' description
