“The most recent financial crisis caused many to question the moral underpinnings of our financial dealings with each other,” Elizabeth Warren, a former Harvard University law professor who was appointed last year to start the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
A former Sunday school teacher and a United Methodist, Warren met with about 20 Christian and Jewish religious leaders to get their input on focusing the bureau’s work, and to hear stories of how the financial crisis has affected their communities.
Her meeting included representatives of the Progressive National Baptist Convention, the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, Sojourners and the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference.
“They’re not merely passers-along of information,” she said. “These are people who have thought deeply about a financial crisis that has moral and spiritual dimensions. I want this agency to be informed by the deeper thinking that they’ve brought to these issues.”
