Having served from her perch at brookings as a key confidant and friend to both the first bush and the first obama f so calledaith czars and she has begun to develop exciting new faithbased partnerships and initiatives. God bless each of them and god bless resident george w. Bush and god bless president opera obama. Barack obama. I have been teaching at Ivy League Universities for more than 30 years. Having the key value of an Ivy League Professor which means i can speak for five minutes or two hours on any subject with no essential change in content. [laughter] before you hear from my betters on this religion, policy, and civic life. In the half dozen or so years that are seeded the establishment of the office, small but intellectually and ideologically and religiously diverse cadre of policy wonks and opinion leaders came together. What happened was that we trumpeted a fact, a fact that was hiding pretty much in plain view. Namely, the fact that americas urban churches come the synag
In his 2004 Democratic Convention speech, a speech that got me involved in politics. He said that we worship an awesome god in the blue states. Then there was his address to reverend jim walliss call to a renewal conference in 2006, a speech that i was honored to work with him in the Senate Office and he developed a template for how this president would engage issues. In that speech, then senator obama declared that, our failure as progressives to tap into the moral underpinnings of this nation is not just rhetorical. Our fear of getting preachy may also lead us to discount the role that values and culture play in some of our most urgent social problems. He went on to say individual churches are sponsoring day care programs, building senior centers, helping ex offenders reclaim their lives and rebuilding the gulf coast in the aftermath of hurricane katrina. And he concluded, the question is, how do we build on these partnerships between religious and secular people of goodwill . It wil
Government, they do not have the available. Part of it was, there is great history there. Even more secularized groups found it easier to collaborate in those ways. Some of the changes were called forth by the African American pastors that would be the first door and knocked on what somebody was released or in need of service. I remember tony evans meeting in the office with the president and td jakes and others of the frontline. They may not have some the sophistication of these established charities but they have capacity. Why would they be excluded . My question is this, there are differences. Dr. Diiulio wrote a textbook you would transfer. I want to know basically would it have stayed the same system since there are so many differences . What do you as a director pass on to the next . Headaches. [laughter] horrors. Messes to clean up. You cannot possibly look back. I said at the outset, what unites us is a lot bigger that divide us. The desire to put them on a level Playing Field
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Corruption exposed as we learn a second hunter biden laptop was seized by the fbi in february, senator ron johnson and Investigative Reporter Peter Schweizer with new information on their investigation, the bidens big money deals and influenced pedal ing and fresh off of a Supreme Court victory senator Lindsey Graham is here on a tight senate race in South Carolina, plus, will black america tip the scales for President Trump . So the stakes are higher and every poll that you look at shows i dont care if youre looking at a leftleaning poll or rightleaning poll they show the plaque support for donald trump has increased and thats a detrimental threat to the Democrat Party who cannot afford to lose even five points of the black vote or else their entire party is finished. Maria football great Herschel Walker now producer and film star on the movement happening in the African Americans community all that and a lot more right here, right now on sunday morning futures. But first this Morning