What are God's politics anyway?

I started reading God’s Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It by Jim Wallis while I was on my honeymoon. It’s very thought provoking and I’ve been moving through it very slowly because it requires me to wrestle with a lot of issues. I’ve always been fairly ignorant of national political issues but at times of the presidential race I do at least pay attention to what’s going on. Moral issues have always been important to me but I am realizing that I have been focusing my attention on only a few hot moral topics, namely abortion and gay rights. But Wallis points to the fact that poverty, the environment, war and peace, among many others are also moral issues. The Bible actually speaks to most of these issues far more than it does to the issue of homosexuality. So why have I focused my political views on a short select list of moral issues when there are many others important to God? I’m hoping Wallis’ book can help me come to a place of greater passion and sensitivity to all of the issues that are dear to God’s heart. With that said, expect to read a lot of commentary on God’s Politics in this blog in the weeks ahead.