 Jim Wallis 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. 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. Image File history File linksMetadata Jim_Wallis. ...
June 4 is the 155th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (156th in leap years), with 210 days remaining. ...
1948 (MCMXLVIII) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Nickname: The Motor City, Motown Motto: Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus (Latin for, We Hope For Better Things; It Shall Rise From the Ashes) Official website: http://www. ...
As a noun, Christian is an appellation and moniker deriving from the appellation Christ, which many people associate exclusively with Jesus of Nazareth. ...
Sojourners is a Christian magazine and a religious community based in Washington, D.C.. Though it has promoted itself with the slogan Not from the Left, not from the Right, but from the Spirit, the magazines content is generally left-leaning in political outlook, and is probably the most...
...
The concept of peace ranks among the most controversial in our time. ...
Social Justice is a concept that has fascinated philosophers ever since Plato rebuked the young Sophist, Thrasymachus, for asserting that justice was whatever the strongest decided it would be. ...
The term Religious Right, is a broad label applied to a number of political and religious movements and groups. ...
Raised in a traditional evangelical family, as a young man Wallis became active in the civil rights movement. He graduated from Michigan State University, where he was President of Students for a Democratic Society and then went on to attend Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Illinois where he joined with other young seminarians in establishing the community that eventually became Sojourners. The word evangelicalism usually refers to a tendency in diverse branches of Protestantism, typified by an emphasis on evangelism, a personal experience of conversion, biblically-oriented faith, and a belief in the relevance of Christian faith to cultural issues. ...
The civil rights movement in the United States has been a long, primarily nonviolent struggle to bring full civil rights and equality under the law to all citizens of United States. ...
Michigan State University (MSU) is a public university in East Lansing, Michigan. ...
The Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was a student activist movement in the United States founded in 1959. ...
Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (TEDS) is a leading evangelical Christian seminary in Deerfield, Illinois. ...
Official language(s) English Capital Springfield Largest city Chicago Area - Total - Width - Length - % water - Latitude - Longitude Ranked 25th 149,998 km² 340 km 629 km 4. ...
His books include God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It (2004), Faith Works: How Faith Based Organizations Are Changing Lives, Neighborhoods, and America (2000), and The Soul of Politics: Beyond "Religious Right" and "Secular Left" (1995). His writings are regularly published as op-eds in major media outlets, and he teaches a course in religion and politics at Harvard University. He is also the convener of Call to Renewal, an ecumenical effort to end poverty. 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
This article is about the year 2000. ...
1995 (MCMXCV in Roman) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and a member of the Ivy League. ...
Jim Wallis lives in inner-city Washington, D.C. with his wife, Joy, and their sons, Luke and Jack.
In December 2005 Wallis was arrested with over a hundred other Christian activists who were protesting a House Republican budget plan that would cut into programs designed to aid low-income families. [1]
Quotes
"To allow political ideology to overshadow human needs and fundamental issues of life and death is to go seriously astray."
"We are the leaders we've been waiting for."
Books
 God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It - Agenda for Biblical People (1976, second edition 1984)
- The Call to Conversion (1981); republished in paperback as Recovering the Gospel for These Times (1992)
- Revive Us Again: A Sojourner's Story (1983)
- The Soul of Politics: A Practical and Prophetic Vision for Change (1994)
- The Soul of Politics: Beyond "Religious Right" and "Secular Left" (1995)
- Who Speaks for God?: An Alternative to the Religious Right: A New Politics of Compassion, Community, and Civility (1996)
- Faith Works: How Faith Based Organizations Are Changing Lives, Neighborhoods, and America (2001)
- God's Politics : Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It Hardcover: 416 pages, Harper San Francisco (2004) ISBN 0060558288
Image File history File links Godspolitics. ...
External links - Official biography from Sojourners
- Sojourners Magazine
- Call to Renewal
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1710985,00.html?gusrc=rss
See also |
Feeds |
Contact