From Associated Baptist Press:
WASHINGTON (ABP) — The nation’s most broadly ecumenical Christian group is urging the new administration of President-elect Obama to include help for the poor in any economic-stimulus package.
Leaders of Christian Churches Together in the USA met with journalists, members of Congress and the Obama transition team Jan. 15 in Washington to implore them not to let the new economic concerns of the middle and upper classes crowd out the ongoing travails of the nation’s poorest citizens.
“It is typical of political leaders to focus on the middle class, and we too care about the middle class,” Jim Wallis, president of Sojourners, said at a press conference announcing the push. “However, it is our religious responsibility to make sure the poor — who are so close to the heart of God — are not left out and left behind in this severe economic crisis. They are already in crisis, so we don’t recall Jesus saying, ‘I was in the middle class and I lost my 401(K).’”
…Formed in 2005, Christian Churches Together includes diverse mainline Protestant, African-American Protestant, evangelical and Pentecostal Protestant, Catholic and Eastern Orthodox denominations, as well as parachurch organizations.
The American Baptist Churches USA, National Baptist Convention USA, National Baptist Convention of America and Cooperative Baptist Fellowship all belong to CCT. Other Baptist groups — including the Baptist General Convention of Texas and the Progressive National Baptist Convention — are either considering or in the process of joining.
For a complete list of Christian Churches Together member organizations, see here.
Read CCT’s Statement on Poverty.
Glad to see the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship and the Baptist General Convention of Texas involved in this worthwhile endeavor!
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new day in America. government-private-public partnerships will be the future. due to the correlated and emergent qualities of economies, the problems and consequences of such require a higher degree of integration/coordination among these entities than in the past. let’s hope our brand of capitalism is as affectively-oriented as it has been cognitively-oriented, for if it is, it will be about creating conditions for the integration and celebration of a people rather than one in which getting ahead means greater and greater social and economic segmentation where aspects of society have little knowledge of or concern for other aspects of society. surely homo-sapiens wish to be regarded as those whose wisdom issued forth from love.