[Editor's Note: Today is the fourth installment of a six-part series by Jim Wallis reflecting on the past two years and painting a post-election vision for people of faith and Sojourners. We encourage you to read the essays, engage in conversation with others, and support Sojourners in making this vision happen.]
The power of an inside/outside strategy has been compromised by the problem of access which many leaders from social movements got after the election of Barack Obama. I remember seeing many friends in the building which served as the administration's transition headquarters, all of us attending meeting after meeting on the policies the new administration hoped to enact. Some of us attended so many meetings on so many varied topics that some security guards joked that we ought to have cots in the transition headquarters to avoid going back and forth from home so much.
After the new administration took office, the meetings and calls continued. Along with about 20 other leaders from the faith-based and nonprofit community, I served on the first Whitehouse Council of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships -- a commitment which involved more task forces, phone calls, and multi-day White House meetings than any of us ever expected.
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