{"id":29,"date":"2006-09-25T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-25T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godspolitics\/2006\/09\/jim-wallis-lets-continue-the-d.html"},"modified":"2006-09-25T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-25T12:00:00","slug":"jim-wallis-lets-continue-the-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godspolitics\/2006\/09\/jim-wallis-lets-continue-the-d.html","title":{"rendered":"Jim Wallis: Let’s Continue the Dialogue"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"JimThe first week of the God\u2019s Politics Blog got us off to a great start. I\u2019ve enjoyed this dialogue with Ralph Reed. We agree that people of faith should address the central moral issues in the public arena, while we disagree just what those issues are and how they should be addressed. <\/p>\n

I\u2019ve also enjoyed all of the comments it has produced. I haven\u2019t had a chance to read all of them yet, but I have seen some very good dialogue. It\u2019s that dialogue on a true \u201cvalues politics\u201d that this blog will continue. As I travel around the country, I find that the American people are weary of the left\/right battle lines but are hungry for a \u201cmoral center\u201d in politics, one that the media pundits cannot simply pigeonhole with the worn-out labels of liberal or conservative. We need a new dialogue that goes beyond those categories.<\/p>\n

And as God\u2019s Politics continues to discuss that moral center, we will be fiercely independent \u2013 a thorn in the side of both parties. It is still all too true that the Right gets it wrong, and the Left doesn\u2019t get it. But there is a new progressive religious voice that is being heard, and a new dialogue is beginning.<\/p>\n

This week on the God\u2019s Politics Blog, I\u2019ll be joined by my friends journalist Amy Sullivan, emergent church leader Brian McLaren, anti-death penalty advocate Sr. Helen Prejean, and religious scholar Diana Butler Bass. I also hope you’re enjoying our \u201cDaily Digest\u201d<\/a> and \u201cVerse and Voice\u201d<\/a> e-mail newsletters.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s keep the conversation going. And tell your friends about it.<\/p>\n

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