What if Barack Obama established a Presidential Advisory Committee that would meet once every couple of months, bringing together the former presidents for a conference in order to seek their collective wisdom? There is a wealth of experience in former presidents that generally goes untapped.

A career public speaker is not what I'm called to be. I'm called to be a critic.

The reason why I buy into the Democratic Party more than the Republican Party is because there are over 2,000 verses of Scripture that deal with responding to the needs of the poor.

Artists are the best theologians. They feel things that are true before theologians can jargonize them into obscurity.

I don't think that John Kerry is the Messiah or the Democratic Party is the answer, but I don't like the evangelical community blessing the Republican Party as some kind of God-ordained instrument for solving the world's problems.

The real problem that I think those of us who are evangelicals and Democrats have to face up to is that the political right controls the religious media.

Clinton's successor in the White House, George W. Bush, was committed to expanding government spending for faith-based initiatives.