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Jim Wallis: Why Christians Should Support Immigration Reform
Submitted by EvanDonovan on Tue, 04/22/2008 - 11:22.
In both the Old Testament and the New, God's people are told to welcome the alien and the stranger. Current U.S. immigration law makes this calling difficult to live out, as Jim Wallis explains.
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Last night Jim Wallis spoke at the historic Park Street Church about hope. Though we have mountains to move - poverty both global and domestic, climate change, sex trafficking - we have Christ's promise that our faith can move mountains. The Gospel always comes as good news in the midst of bad news; it does not ignore the evils of our world, but it creates a new order in which those evils can no longer stand.
Jim Wallis: "Moral State of the Union" Video
Submitted by EvanDonovan on Wed, 01/30/2008 - 19:23.
Before President Bush gave his final State of the Union address on Jan. 29, Jim Wallis gave an address of his own - on the moral state of the Union.
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The Great Awakening: Reviving Faith & Politics in a Post-Religious Right America
Submitted by EvanDonovan on Tue, 01/22/2008 - 16:59.What will it take to solve the biggest issues of our time: extreme and needless poverty, global warming and environmental degradation, terrorism and the endless cycle of violence, racism, human trafficking, health care and education, and other pressing problems? While Washington offers only the politics of blame and fear, Jim Wallis, the man who changed the conversation about faith and politics, has traveled the country and found a nation hungry for a politics of solutions and hope. He shows us that a revival is happening, as people of faith and moral conviction seek common ground for change.
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Evangelical Politics Seeks a New Path (The New York Times)
Submitted by EvanDonovan on Tue, 10/30/2007 - 11:26.
You know things are changing in the evangelical world when the New York Times takes notice.
This Sunday, the New York Times Magazine published a feature article titled "The Evangelical Crackup." It's a quite lengthy and well-researched piece detailing how many evangelicals are waking up to the reality that God's social concerns are broader than the platform of the Republican Party.
If you don't have the time to read all 10 pages of the article, Jim Wallis has the highlights.
Who are the "Values Voters"?: Jim Wallis Debates Richard Land
Submitted by EvanDonovan on Thu, 10/25/2007 - 14:07.
As primary season approaches, "values voters" are once again in the news. In this video, Jim Wallis of Sojourners debates Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Convention on what exactly it means to promote the values of Christ in the public square.
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Christianity and the Social Crisis in the 21st Century: The Classic That Woke Up the Church
Submitted by EvanDonovan on Mon, 08/13/2007 - 16:02.n the wake of the success of God's Politics, comes an anniversary edition of Walter Rauschenbusch's Christianity and the Social Crisis, a book which outsold every other religious volume for three years and which has become a classic and mainstay for any Christian seriously interested in social justice.
PBS has named Rauschenbusch one of the most influential American religious leaders in the last 100 years, and Christianity Today named this book one of the top books of the century that have shaped contemporary religious thought.
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Sojourners: "Bush Has Given Christ a Bad Name," says Pastor in India
Submitted by EvanDonovan on Wed, 10/10/2007 - 11:45.
"Somehow I get the impression that the agenda of White Evangelical Christianity is being thrust on Evangelicals around the world." This testimony from a pastor in India is discouraging, but worthy of our attention.
God's Politics, a blog written by Jim Wallis and friends, has the full letter.
Sojourners: Jim Wallis Launches Vote out Poverty Campaign
Submitted by EvanDonovan on Mon, 08/27/2007 - 18:46.
Jim Wallis (voteoutpoverty.org) joins Adam Taylor in launching the Vote Out Poverty Campaign as he leads a march of hundreds of progressive Christian activists to the nation's capitol building.
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Faith Works: How Faith Based Organizations Are Changing Lives, Neighborhoods, and America
Submitted by Andrew Sears on Mon, 04/30/2007 - 20:52. | author: Jim Wallis asin: 1879290235 binding: Paperback list price: $14.95 USD amazon price: $11.51 USD |
Who Speaks for God?
Submitted by Andrew Sears on Mon, 04/30/2007 - 20:52. | author: Jim Wallis asin: 0385316933 binding: Paperback list price: $11.95 USD amazon price: $11.95 |
Cloud Of Witnesses
Submitted by Andrew Sears on Mon, 04/30/2007 - 20:50. | asin: 157075571X binding: Paperback list price: $20.00 USD amazon price: $13.60 USD |
God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It (Plus)
Submitted by Andrew Sears on Mon, 04/30/2007 - 20:50. | author: Jim Wallis asin: 0060834471 binding: Paperback list price: $14.95 USD amazon price: $10.17 USD |
The Call to Conversion
Submitted by Andrew Sears on Mon, 04/30/2007 - 20:50. | author: Jim Wallis asin: 0060842377 binding: Paperback list price: $13.95 USD amazon price: $11.16 USD |
Living God's Politics: A Guide to Putting Your Faith into Action
Submitted by Andrew Sears on Mon, 04/30/2007 - 20:50. | author: Jim Wallis asin: 0061118419 binding: Paperback list price: $15.95 USD amazon price: $10.85 USD |
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