Jim Wallis
Jim Wallis
Jim Wallisis a Christian writer and political activist. He is best known as the founder and editor of Sojourners magazine and as the founder of the Washington, D.C.-based Christian community of the same name. Wallis is well known for his advocacy on issues of peace and social justice. Although Wallis actively eschews political labels, he describes himself as an evangelical and is often associated with the evangelical left and the wider Christian left. He works as a spiritual advisor to...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth4 June 1948
CountryUnited States of America
We always have had some students who chose not to spend the money and buy parking spots and then they park off campus,
The monologue of the religious right is finally over and a new dialogue has begun.
The monologue of the religious right is finally over and a new dialogue has just begun. A whole new generation of young evangelicals are coming up that cares more about poverty than gay marriage amendments.
God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It .
A billion dollars every week for Iraq, $87 billion for Iraq. We can't get $5 billion for childcare over five years in welfare reform.
In an economy with record-breaking prosperity, it's past time to put poor people on the political agenda.
The country is not hungry for a religious left to counter a religious right.
We have got some mountains to move. Three billion people -- half of God's children -- are living on less than $2 a day. That's a big thing.
Our calling is not only to pull people out of the river, but to go upstream to find out what or who is pushing them in.
It's hope as a decision that makes change possible.
Anyone can love peace, but Jesus didn't say, "Blessed are the peace-lovers." He says �peacemakers.� He is referring to a life vocation, not a hobby on the sidelines of life.
But when we place God on our side of things, that we are now ridding the world of evil - that's very dangerous, that one nation has this role to rid the world of evil. What about the evil we have committed, that we are complicit in?
Sometimes it takes a natural disaster to reveal a social disaster.
The best response to bad religion is better religion, not secularism.