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Jim Wallis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Reverend Jim Wallis (born June 4, 1948 in Detroit, Michigan) is a Christian writer and political activist, best known as the founder and editor of Sojourners magazine and of the Washington DC based Christian community of the same name. Jim Wallis lives in inner-city Washington, D.C. with his wife, Joy, and their sons, Luke and Jack. Wallis actively eschews political labels, but his advocacy tends to focus on issues of peace and social justice, earning him some opposition from the religious right. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jim_Wallis   (466 words)

Progressive preacher ajc.com Wallis was raised in a fundamentalist church in suburban Detroit. Wallis was so intimidated by preaching in King's former church that he was sweating heavily by the time he stammered into his opening. Wallis argues that any approach to solving massive national problems such as poverty must combine the insights of both the left and the right. www.ajc.com /living/content/living/0505/21wallis.html   (1542 words)

The Morals of the Story - Does Jim Wallis' leftist, Bible-based book get it right? By Elizabeth A. Castelli Wallis also passionately reminds his readers that not only is "Christian" not coterminous with "right-wing Christian fundamentalist," but more important, the Bible's overarching justice claims demand that social and economic life be organized around the needs of the community's weakest members. Wallis is absolutely right when he attributes to religious conviction a special power to inspire action in ways that few other forms of human affect or affiliation can achieve. Wallis is correct to remind us that the civil rights movement drew much of its energy and vision from the black church and that Martin Luther King Jr. www.slate.com /id/2111701   (2561 words)

Amazon.com: God's Politics : Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It: Books: Jim Wallis Wallis proposes a new sort of politics, the name of which serves as the title of the book, wherein these disparities are reconciled and progressive causes are paired with spiritual guidance for the betterment of society. Wallis is at his most compelling when he puts this theory into action himself, letting his own beliefs guide him through stinging criticisms of the war in Iraq. Wallis thumps the Bible with all the fervor of a modern-day Jonathan Edwards as he quotes from the prophet Micah and thunders: "Micah is right; Rumsfeld is wrong" (page 202). www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060558288?v=glance   (2061 words)

Interview: Rescuing Religion From the Right with Jim Wallis The Rev. Jim Wallis, editor-in-chief of Sojourners magazine and a founder of the faith-based antipoverty organization Call to Renewal, appeared on countless TV and radio shows to debate religion and politics with leaders of the religious right. Wallis recently spoke with Beliefnet about ways to incorporate liberal religious positions into politics, the values-based issues religious people should care most about, and his outlook on the role of faith in politics during the next four years. It's not just about a book but about a whole progressive faith movement that is growing and coming together and having more public face and public voice, and will join in serious debate, serious dialogue with the religious right. www.gracecathedral.org /enrichment/interviews/int_20050201.shtml   (2113 words)

Brutally Honest: Jim Wallis is playing savior... Say Jim… Bill Clinton was a big supporter of something like an International Criminal Court but mounting opposition by people with sound sense won the day then and would win the day now. What's really sad here is that Jim's beliefs come from his interpretation of Scripture but I don't think you can even consider that it might be correct or even have value because it actually has some coincidence with the message of the liberal bogeymen. Please cite quotations from Jim in which he is advocating a far more liberal "leftist" position than what he is saying in public these days. www.brutallyhonest.org /brutally_honest/2005/08/jim_wallis_offe.html   (2356 words)

individualProfile.asp?indid=1833 These refugees, as Wallis saw it, had been "inoculated" by capitalist influences during the war and were absconding "to support their consumer habit in other lands." Wallis then admonished critics against pointing to the boatpeople to "discredit" the righteousness of Vietnam's newly victorious Communist regime. Wallis' faith in Marxism would propel him to the front line of the Left's unifying campaign of the 1980s: support for Communist dictatorships in Central America. Meanwhile, some fifteen Democratic members of the House made Wallis the guest of honor at a breakfast confab whose subject, according to The New York Times, was devising ways to instill support for the Democratic Party into the hearts of the religious faithful. www.discoverthenetwork.org /individualProfile.asp?indid=1833   (3438 words)

BuzzFlash > Interview > Wallis Jim Wallis: Well, having had two debates this week with Jerry Falwell, I want to tell you that he excludes me. Listen – religion doesn’t have a monopoly on morality, and that should be clearly stated. Jim Wallis: Well, in the New Testament, it says, “Faith without works is dead.” So unless there are deeds – unless there is action to carry out faith, and even to show that it’s real – then faith – that’s a pretty strong word – is dead. Jim Wallis: The right is very comfortable with the language of faith and values and God and faith. www.buzzflash.com /interviews/05/02/int05008.html   (3501 words)

Christian News, Updated Daily - Christian Today > Jim Wallis & Faithworks Call for Political Engagement Jim Wallis, the outspoken US-political commentator has spoken about the impact religion can have in the political arena at the UK launch of his best-selling book ‘God’s Politics. Jim Wallis, the outspoken US-political commentator has spoken about the impact religion can have in the political arena at the UK launch of his best-selling book ‘God’s Politics: Why the American Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It’. Wallis, who is the Executive Director of Sojourners and Convenor of Call to Renewal, a US movement of faith-based organisations working to overcome poverty, spoke passionately on the position that faith could have in the political sphere, as well as the role that people of faith had to have in fighting poverty in the world. www.christiantoday.com /news/society/jim.wallis.faithworks.call.for.political.engagement/723.htm   (838 words)

Dignan's 75 Year Plan: Jim Wallis, You Ought To Be Ashamed Of Yourself Some of you may be familiar with Jim Wallis, founder of Sojourners and author of a new book, God’s Politics:Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It. I know this seems like old news, but Jim Wallis's book is not. Jim criticizes the tax cuts of 2003 as unfair and damaging to low-income families. lawnrangers.blogspot.com /2005/01/jim-wallis-you-ought-to-be-ashamed-of.html   (310 words)

Electronic Newsroom: Jim Wallis on the role of faith in the November elections Electronic Newsroom: Jim Wallis on the role of faith in the November elections Wallis evoked the image of "Burger King Mom." She was a parent and fast-food worker one of Wallis' colleagues met at a drive-through window. Wallis was adamant in his stance that change requires a fresh perspective, a biblical approach to righting society's wrongs. www.ucc.org /news/releases/r101800a.shtml   (791 words)

frontline: the jesus factor: interviews: jim wallis PBS Jim Wallis is editor and founder of the liberal evangelical magazine Sojourners, the author of The Soul of Politics, and the head of "Call to Renewal," a faith-based anti-poverty organization. frontline: the jesus factor: interviews: jim wallis Wallis also talks about the president's personal faith and how he is putting that faith into action. www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/jesus/interviews/wallis.html   (4680 words)

Berkeley Daily Planet An evangelical preacher, Jim Wallis was a leader of Students for a Democratic Society, and is a long-time activist, best known as the founder of the Sojourner Community in Washington, DC. Wallis observed that “the biggest mistake progressives made was to cede values and faith to the religious right,” implying that many people of faith decided that liberals, and Democrats in general, didn’t care about faith, didn’t care about their spiritual crisis, and as a result began to vote Republican. Reverend Wallis argued that progressives must have faith, that it “is about changing the big things” such as ending poverty in the world. www.berkeleydaily.org /text/article.cfm?issue=07-22-05&storyID=21911   (844 words)

A Summary/Review of God's Politics by Jim Wallis - Cyburbia Forums Wallis feels that if the Democrats would simply acknowledge a desire to reduce the abortion rate and that members of their party were free to hold pro-life beliefs, they could make great strides in gaining support. Wallis explains that voters have three basic options for voting, none of which allow them to vote all of their values due to the drastic extremes presented: extreme conservative, extreme liberal and libertarian. Wallis goes on to say that a world superpower should be able to ensure that all able-bodied people have employment, have good and affordable housing and healthcare. www.cyburbia.org /forums/showthread.php?t=17407   (2590 words)

TomPaine.com - God's Own Party Jim Wallis is convener of Call to Renewal, a network of churches and faith-based organizations working to overcome poverty, and editor of   Sojourners magazine. www.tompaine.com /articles/20050512/gods_own_party.php   (707 words)

God's Democrat (The church of Jim Wallis) Wallis is pro-life and forthrightly deplores the Democratic party's "highly ideological and very rigid stance on this critical moral issue." But his chapter "A Consistent Ethic of Life" offers a spoonful of sugar to help the medicine go down for committed pro-choice Democrats, pairing the case against abortion with the case against capital punishment. Wallis is its pastor, and he still participates in its monthly services, along with a congregation of "a few dozen." He also worships at an Episcopal church (his wife is an ordained minister in the Church of England) and the evangelical Cedar Ridge Community Church in Spencerville, Maryland. In September 1979, Wallis wrote of the Vietnamese "boat people": "Many of today's refugees were inoculated with a taste for a Western lifestyle during the war years and are fleeing to support their consumer habit in other lands," somehow managing to credit their desperate flight in fear of totalitarian oppression to the corruption of capitalism. www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1377520/posts   (4244 words)

God's Politics: An Interview With Jim Wallis Jim Wallis: The Right is comfortable with the language of religion, values, God talk. Speaking in churches, bookstores and on radio and television talk shows, Wallis says he is witnessing what could be the birth of a new movement that challenges the hold the Right has had on religion and morality for decades. Through a conversational combination of first-person stories, news analysis, statistics and old fashion preaching (on the written page), Wallis paints a very different picture of what religion means than the one President Bush and many of his supporters have in mind. www.motherjones.com /news/qa/2005/03/gods_politics_jim_wallis.html   (2840 words)

Reading the Bible with a pair of scissors - On Line Opinion - 6/5/2005 While Wallis merely scratches the surface on this issue, it is certainly a fertile area for Christians to contribute positively yet radically to the social policy debate. Wallis writes from a US perspective in which the Right (and the religious Right in particular) trumpets moral values but in reality champions only two, namely abortion and homosexuality (strongly against both, of course). It is unrealistic to expect Wallis to address every aspect of government policy but in general he succeeds in applying a biblical morality to the issues confronting the US political scene. www.onlineopinion.com.au /view.asp?article=3417   (2085 words)

Democracy Now! God's Politics: Frist Fights Filibuster on Judicial Nominees in "Justice Sunday" JIM WALLIS: Well, James Dobson, the head of Focus on the Family, one of the organizers of this event, and Albert Mohler be the president of the Southern Baptist Seminary, also one of the planners of this event, and they're already beginning to back off, which they should. Jim Wallis, author of "God's Politics: Why the Right Gets it Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It." He is a founder of the Sojourners Community and editor of Sojourners Magazine. JIM WALLIS: When I was on Jon Stewart he said: “You want to apply the teachings of Jesus to politics?” And I said, “Yeah. www.democracynow.org /article.pl?sid=05/04/26/1355204   (3272 words)

Peter Levine: Jim Wallis' "message" Wallis is angry about "wartime tax cuts for the wealthy, rising deficits, and the slashing of programs for low-income families and children." So am I. However, changing the distribution of wealth through the tax code only helps if the government spending is beneficial. Wallis says that he has been telling them to change their policy proposals, not just their rhetoric. Wallis provides an additional service by sketching out the main points of a liberal agenda that is explicitly moral. www.peterlevine.ws /mt/archives/000668.html   (600 words)

Is Bush Deaf to Church Doubts on Iraq War? Jim Wallis is executive director and editor of Sojourners. Bush has frequently reminded us of Martin Luther King's teaching that ''The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state.'' As a war with Iraq approaches, the churches are fulfilling that vocation. www.commondreams.org /cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/views02/1209-01.htm   (778 words)

Random House Books Faith Works by Jim Wallis Jim Wallis is the charismatic preacher, activist, and leader of Call to Renewal, a dynamic new movement that is uniting politics and spirituality to ignite social change and overcome poverty. Jim Wallis is a preacher, an activist, an author, the convener of Call to Renewal, and the editor in chief of Sojourners magazine. Wallis believes that the making of the modern Christian, Muslim, or Jew is through action. www.randomhouse.com /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=0-375-50593-8   (654 words)

Jim Wallis: 'I See Genuine Soul-Searching Among Democrats' - Christianity Today Magazine Jim Wallis, convener of Call to Renewal, has been calling on Christians to see political involvement beyond the perennial issues of abortion and gay rights. More about Jim Wallis is available from Sojourners magazine. Wallis, a registered Democrat, is an evangelical leader in the faith-based Left and a frequent critic of George W. Bush. www.christianitytoday.com /ct/2005/106/54.0.html   (3424 words)

The Seventh Age: Jim Wallis Debunked One of the most insufferable characters on the political scene today is Sojourners magazine editor Jim Wallis, author of the best-selling book God's Politics. Wallis attempts to re-invigorate the modern welfare state by recasting it in moral terms, supposedly consistent with scripture and "good theology." His book is a gameplan on how to frame doctrinaire Democratic policies in supposedly moral terms, and an exhortation to Democrats to "moderate" their position on abortion. Posted by: Jason A. at June 5, 2005 09:28 PM "What really ticks me off is that Wallis often lectures Catholics on their theological responsibilities and what Catholic Social Teaching supposedly says." www.theseventhage.com /archives/2005/06/jim_wallis_debu.html   (741 words)

Interview: FINDING MY RELIGION - Jim Wallis on Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It But Jim Wallis, a left-wing evangelical Christian who believes Democrats need to affirm the role of faith in shaping public policy, sees these developments differently. Jim Wallis will be our guest at The Forum on April 10 at 9:30 am. Interview: FINDING MY RELIGION - Jim Wallis on Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It Jim Wallis www.gracecathedral.org /enrichment/interviews/int_20050301.shtml   (1307 words)

Religious Movements Homepage: Call to Renewal On May 23, 1995, Jim Wallis, Ron Sider, Tony Campolo, and over 100 Christian leaders from varying traditions gathered in the "Cry for Renewal" conference. It is people like Jim Wallis, founder of Call to Renewal, who heeded this call to reverse the Great Reversal. The latest book from Jim Wallis, founder of Call to Renewal, which represents an alternative view to the Religious Right. religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu /nrms/Callrenu.html   (2195 words)

Hands On Magazine Jim Wallis, founder of the Sojourners organization and Editor of its magazine, is a speaker, author, activist, international commentator on ethics and public life, and co-former of Call to Renewal. Wallis recently returned to North Park’s Campus, where he taught a week-long course on “Faith, Politics, and Society” in the Spring of 2002, to speak in chapel (the transcription of which can be found here). That’s the right way to use the language of God in the political realm. campus.northpark.edu /umin/ho/archive/fall04/advocate.cfm   (689 words)

FaithfulReader.com - Jim Wallis Jim Wallis, an evangelical, is the leading figure at the crossroads of religion and politics in America today. Jim Wallis Answers The Faithful Fifteen -- MONTH YEAR Wallis has been an Institute of Politics Fellow at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, and has taught on faith, politics, and society both there and at the Harvard Divinity School. www.faithfulreader.com /authors/au-wallis-jim.asp   (239 words)

Speaker: Democrats must seize momentum from Katrina The Rev. Jim Wallis has been advising the Democrats to make poverty their central issue for years, but he says now they're starting to pay attention because Hurricane Katrina exposed disparities in New Orleans to a shocked nation. A member of the Sojourners ministry, the Rev. Jim Wallis advocates using a Christian foundation to change politics and culture. Wallis, the editor of Sojourners magazine and author of "God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It," spoke to more than 200 people at El Buen Samaritano Episcopal Mission in South Austin on Wednesday night. www.statesman.com /metrostate/content/metro/stories/09/23wallis.html   (518 words)

Zondervan Books: Jim Wallis Jim Wallis has long been the leading voice at the crossroads of faith, politics, business, spirituality, and culture. Time magazine names Wallis one of the 50 Faces for America’s Future, and in fall 2003, he was a visiting fellow of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. He is the founder and editor of SOJOURNER magazine, and the president and convener of “Call to Renewal, the national federation of churches and faith-based organizations working with members of Congress and the White House to overcome poverty and revitalize American politics. www.zondervan.com /Books/profile.asp?BioID=WallisJ   (149 words)

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