Faith and Politics Candidates' Forums

Here are two pieces about last Monday night's CNN forum among Clinton-Edwards-Obama on "Faith, Values, and Poverty."  The Christian Science Monitor piece evaluates the "religious left" more generally.  The  Christianity Today post accurately notes that the candidates at the forum were long on personal stories and short on specifics about policy regarding poverty (but see this book of varying proposals by Jack Kemp, Elizabeth Warren, etc., published by Edwards's anti-poverty research center at UNC Law School).  But CT also rightly remarks that having such a forum, with one planned for the GOP candidates in September, is a good development.

Tom