The Minister & Politics CD - How to be political without being partisan. Christian Ethics Today. The full conference held in Washington DC 6/27/2007

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The Minister and Politics conference was held on Wednesday, June 27, 2007 at the Grant Hyatt Hotel in Washington, D.C. Speakers Jim Wallis, Melissa Rogers, Gregg Boyd and Tony Campolo addressed the conference on the possibilities of non-partisan political involvement among today's Christians. The complete conference video, including all speeches and Q&A sessions are included. Jim Wallis, president and executive director of Sojourners, said the U.S. political system is broken and can only be fixed by a social movement with spiritual foundations. "We're not going to get to social justice without a revival of faith," he said. Wallis suggested several "rules of engagement" for Christians who want to engage the world with their faith but aren't sure how to do it. "God hates injustice, and we should, too, if we are God's children," and Christians are called to be a part of the new order that Jesus predicted, he said. Believers advance the cause of Christ best when they focus on specific injustices they can address rather than visions of a separate utopian society. Wallis said Christians should act as the conscience of the state, recognizing that church and state have separate roles. U.S. Christians should "take a global perspective" and seek the common good, Wallis said. Christians can be political without being partisan when they remember that "our task is not just to elect a candidate, but to build a movement."