I met the president when he was president-elect at a meeting in Austin. He spoke of his faith. He spoke of his desire for a compassionate conservatism, for a faith-based initiative that would do something for poor people.

I don’t hear a lot of that conversation. He is also the convener of Call to Renewal an interfaith effort to end poverty. I'm saying let's take it to the next step and say that abortion reduction is a good thing too.

-based Christian community of the same name. He is best known as the founder and editor of Sojourners magazine and as the founder of the Washington D. Although Wallis actively eschews political labels he describes himself as an evangelical and is often associated with the evangelical left and the wider Christian left.