meyer program director for the national council of churches thank you very much for joining me this evening now as your role as a faith leader how how does that help you to encourage passes the passage rather of the smarter sentencing act. well thank you i think it's important first to know that there's really broad support of this smarter sentencing act both on both sides of the aisle in congress and broad faith support as well and our role particularly from faith community is to bring up the moral issues and the moral questions in terms of how our prisons have become places of mass incarceration with disparities among racial incarceration numbers being very high among black and brown people in our country and the smarter second act will take some actions that will help us do some incremental changes to make this better so it's faith leaders we call for justice we call for the opportunity for restoring and restoration of people from prisons to their families the sentencing act looks at addressing people who are low level drug offenders in nonviolent crimes so do restore them to their famil

he worked in the federal council of churches in the late 30's and early 40's after the war broke out in europe, to convince americans to build a better league of nations. john foster dulles was the single most important version in the establishment of the united nations, which had a strong religious dimension to it. foster dulles could go and talk to christian echo medical organizations and speak in terms of christ's will for humanity. then he could go and walk into and pursuesettings the exact same agenda without mentioning christ's plan for all mankind. the idea that dulles had about were themselves bequeathed to him by the missionaries. there was this debate in the christian ecumenical world in the 1920's and 1930's about whether we should focus our orsion eyes in work on deeds on belief. should we go out and try to convince people to become good christians and believe in jesus christ? or should we make alliances with people of other religions by focusing on those values that we all share, and that we as believe are the values and the teachings of jesus christ without actually attaching them to the name of jesus christ. take care of the poor and th