In a record-breaking economy, one out of five children in America are still poor. Something is terribly wrong with this picture. But there's some very good news. The faith community is getting mobilized like never before in my lifetime. I saw evidence of that again and again in city after city across the country.
Publishers like to send authors out to do media interviews and sign books in bookstores.
Faith Works Forums were sponsored by churches and faith-based groups that are doing the work profiled in Faith Works . The book is really about them. For example, the book tells the story of my visit two years ago to Sing Sing prison in upstate New York. We had an amazing night with the New York Theological Seminary program inside Sing Sing that prepares prisoners for ministry. At the first Faith Works Forum in New York City, two of the men I had met at Sing Sing were helping to lead the town meeting.