Verily I Say Unto You: Christians Care About the Poor

So Robert Putnam thinks that family is broken at the bottom of the economic distribution. We talked about that yesterday. Today we'll talk about what he wants churches to do about it, according to a recent interview: Adopt a more poverty-focused "public agenda" and join the "national conversation."

He said: "The obvious fact is that over the last 30 years, most organized religion has focused on issues regarding sexual morality, such as abortion, gay marriage, all of those. I’m not saying if that’s good or bad, but that’s what they’ve been using all their resources for. This is the most obvious point in the world. It’s been entirely focused on issues of homosexuality and contraception and not at all focused on issues of poverty."