Something is stirring in the land. It's too early to call it a third Great Awakening, like those preceding the American Revolution and the Civil War. But just as the pope continues to draw huge crowds, most recently in secular Paris and in Brazil, where more than 1.5 million came to a Sunday Mass, people are growing tired of government and culture that fail to produce the basic moral and spiritual necessities of life. Indeed, they are recognizing government cannot produce these things, no matter how good the intentions. That's why Promise Keepers is sounding the right call, not to earthly power, but to a personal acknowledgment of human weakness, to a kingdom not of this world.
People are hungry.
And politicians have become irrelevant in the feeding process. The biggest temptation for the leadership of Promise Keepers will be to organize, incorporate, even politicize the movement. If they do, it will fail. They should keep their hands off and see what this God of theirs might do. That is what the frustrated now seem to be doing.