No, we are not the master of the state, said King. We are not the servant of the state. We are the conscience of the state. The churches or the religious community should be, I think, the conscience of the state. We're not just service providers.

I don’t hear a lot of that conversation. He is also the convener of Call to Renewal an interfaith effort to end poverty. I'm saying let's take it to the next step and say that abortion reduction is a good thing too.

-based Christian community of the same name. He is best known as the founder and editor of Sojourners magazine and as the founder of the Washington D. Although Wallis actively eschews political labels he describes himself as an evangelical and is often associated with the evangelical left and the wider Christian left.