It Takes a Movement: Moral Centering and Political Recalibration | Sojourners

It Takes a Movement: Moral Centering and Political Recalibration

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[Editor's Note: Today is the fifth 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.]

An election like this one always calls for both moral centering and political recalibration. Leaders of both parties were talking the morning after the election about cooperation to solve the nation's problems. We'll see, but that will likely also take a movement.

Despite huge Democratic losses in Congress, both sides acknowledge that Barack Obama is still president so what he now does is still important. And Obama has the beginnings of a framework for more serious change in some of what he has already done or proposed, but he will have to lift up a much more powerful vision for change, risk a bolder leadership style, and work with social movements as partners in a creative tension. What's lacking is the big vision and the big movement.

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