I’m not promoting Jim Wallis or his latest book (which I haven’t read) at the expense of anyone else or any other book, but I do find what he has been saying very insightful into the current relationship between Christian faith and politics in the US.

Seeing reports on the American primaries on UK television with a mixture of fascination and fear (are any of these candidates really equipped to lead the USA into a post-Bush era?), I find Wallis’s comments to be penetrating, and in a way reassuring to the Christian community (real change is always bottom-up, rarely top-down, in politics).

This latest mailing from the Sojourners blog therefore brings the issues which have been discussed on this thread right up to date with the primaries. The link is http://blog.beliefnet.com/godspolitics/2008/01/the-limits-of-pollsters-pundit.html