Last weekend Jim Wallis, the head of Sojourners and Russell Johnson , the pastor of Fairfield Christian Church and the founder of the Ohio Restoration Project engaged in a town hall meeting in the Capital Theatre in Columbus, Ohio.  The theme for the event was "faith and values" although the introductory speaker accidentally introduced the event as about "race and values."   Across the street at the capital building, thousands of people rallied for immigrant rights. Wallis and Johnson endeavored to participate in a civil dialogue about how, as evangelicals, both of them could hold such radically different ideas about faith, poverty, war, and family.

The idea behind Russell Johnson's Ohio Restoration Project is that Ohio is "the heart of it all" in terms of the ascendancy of a Christian Right agenda.