Also I'm glad of your work in inner-city ministry. I hope that you are still able to find a way to invest your time with a family to worry about now.
I do focus on economic issues because I believe that those are at the root of so many of the social problems we are seeing. And as more and more of the income and wealth get concentrated at the top the more social problems you will see pop up in society as people start to feel more and more helpless and desperate.
Anyway, carry on with your good work!
To understand where I'm coming from, read the Heidelberg Catechism. Then read Olasky, Schaeffer and Kuyper.
That doesn't put me squarely in the modern American conservative Christian camp. There are differences. Some of them are important differences.
But I'd rather work with people who share 80 or 90 percent of my views than yell about the remaining 20 to 10 percent. Maybe that comes from growing up in a Republican Party household where the goal was to win elections by convincing at least 50-percent-plus-one of the voters, not to be the purest people on the block.
Churches have a bad tendency to split over secondary issues. Secondary issues are important, and we shouldn't forget them, but let's keep the focus on the primary mission.
That principle applies even more strongly to secular politics.