Obama and His Faith -- seeking a common ground

In an On Faith post Barack Obama recounts a story he tells in his book Audacity of Hope about his encounters with pro-life folk. It is a way to share his vision of a new politics that is willing to listen and not demonize those with whom he disagrees. It's a hard road to hoe, and we will have to watch and pray that he will continue on that road as the campaign gets more difficult and the slings and arrows come more frequently.

He calls for a politics where we are able to come together -- pro-life and pro-choice seeking the common good. He has chosen the pro-choice route, but expresses his understanding of why others choose differently.

It's not anything radically new here, but it's worth exploring again.

He closes his comments with these words, which I will leave you with:

I think people are hungry for a different kind of politics – the kind of politics based on the ideals this country was founded upon. The idea that we are all connected as one people. That we all have a stake in one another. That there’s room for pro-lifers and pro-choicers, Evangelicals and atheists, Democrats and Republicans and everyone in between, in this project of American renewal.