The Common Good

Results for Hearts & Minds

An Evangelical Manifesto
Originally Posted: 02/28/2011 - 8:31pm | Type: Magazine Article

Rose Marie Berger Alexis Vaughan "Being disciples of Jesus means serving him in pu ...

A Generation Comes of Age
Originally Posted: 02/28/2011 - 8:31pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis These young evangelicals refuse to reduce the gospel to a "fire-insurance" salvation pitch. ...

Healing the Wounds of Race
Originally Posted: 02/28/2011 - 8:32pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis Sadly, many white Americans are still in denial about black frustration and anger. Barack Obama sh ...

A Turning Point
Originally Posted: 02/28/2011 - 8:32pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis After 40 years, we might finally be ready to come out of the wilderness. The year 1968 was very si ...

The Politics of Change
Originally Posted: 02/28/2011 - 8:32pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis It's time to be in the business of building social movements, not just winning elections. At the ...

Why I Wrote The Great Awakening
Originally Posted: 02/28/2011 - 8:32pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis Evangelicals are leaving the Religious Right in droves. My book God’s Politics called ...

A Real 'Values' Agenda
Originally Posted: 02/28/2011 - 8:32pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis "The Church is the conscience of the state." As we enter the 2008 election year, it’s tim ...

'Come Let Us Reason Together'
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:36pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis It is time to work for common ground between evangelicals and progressives. The public discussion ...

No Turning Back
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:36pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis World Vision shines a spotlight on the moral imperative for change. This August I had the great bl ...

Iraq: The Tipping Point
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:36pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis The war in Iraq should never have been fought, cannot be won, and must now be ended. This summer, o ...

How Faith Shapes Political Values
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:37pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis The presidential forum clearly showed that faith is alive and well on both sides of the political aisle. ...

Falwell's Legacy
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:37pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis I watched much of the cable television coverage of Jerry Falwell's death and legacy. I watched ...

Tonight We Begin to End War
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:37pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis This war is morally wrong, and it was from the very start. The following is adapted from Jim Wall ...

A Conversation on Moral Issues
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:37pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis Rich Cizik is part of a broad and growing evangelical consensus on global warming. A new space is o ...

All Hands on Deck
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:37pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis Scripture suggests a clear role for government in ensuring the common good. This month we look at c ...

Revival for Justice
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:37pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis Some years ago on a trip to the U.K., I walked through the historic Holy Trinity Church on Clapham Common in South London. ...

A Man of Faith
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:37pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis My dad was always one to deflect attention from himself and give the glory to God. On the morning ...

A Watershed Election
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:37pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis The results are good news for those alienated by the political extremes of right and left hungry for a new ...

Faith-Based Fraud
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:37pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis Political manipulation of religion only compounded the crime of political neglect of the poor. Davi ...

Who Will Protect Us From Him?
Originally Posted: 04/06/2011 - 7:25am | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis George Bush's sense of religion makes him alarmingly self-righteous. As the nation observed t ...

Sojourners/Call to Renewal
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:37pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis Sojourners and Call to Renewal have joined forces to create a new and much stronger organization. W ...

If All You Have Is A Hammer
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:38pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis For those who run our foreign policy, diplomacy has become a 'weak' word. The best line I ...

The Rubble of War
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:38pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis 'That's war,' he said, 'and that's why I hate it.' My dad—Jim Wal ...

Something Has Gone Terribly Wrong
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:38pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis Australia is an absolutely beautiful country, and it wasn’t until I got back there (after more than a decade) that I realized h ...

An Evangelical Climate Change
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:38pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis 'I'm tired of those old white guys telling us what to think and do.' For more than a ...

Turning Tables
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:38pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis Would Jesus come to Davos if he were invited? Once each year, the quiet and spectacularly beautiful ...

Red Letter Christians
Originally Posted: 04/06/2011 - 7:25am | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis Somehow, Jesus has survived even the church. “I’m a secular Jewish country music songwriter and di ...

Compassionate Priorities
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:38pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis 'Have they no shame?' was a frequent response. In January 2005, Sojourners and Call to Re ...

Falsehoods and the Iraq War
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:38pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis The warring factions in Iraq are engaged in a civil war that the U.S. occupation is only making worse. ...

When I First Met Bonhoeffer
Originally Posted: 04/06/2011 - 7:32am | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis I had mostly experienced an American Christianity without Christ. When I First Met Bo ...

It's the Message, Not the Messaging
Originally Posted: 04/06/2011 - 7:32am | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis The Democrats can't even muster the gumption to oppose a government of the wealthy, by the wealthy, and for the wealthy. ...

The New Altar Call
Originally Posted: 04/06/2011 - 7:32am | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis We must rise to the occasion, both spiritually and politically. I just finished the ...

The Urgency of Middle East Peace
Originally Posted: 04/06/2011 - 7:30am | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis Palestinian grievances are real and justified. So are Israeli fears. If Americans c ...

A Wake-Up Call to the Churches
Originally Posted: 04/06/2011 - 7:29am | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis We must never claim that those who disagree with our judgements are not people of real faith. ...

A Life of Moral Consistency
Originally Posted: 10/18/2012 - 11:00am | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis Many people - especially leaders - tried to claim the pope as their own. Sadly, it’s ra ...

For the Health of the Nation
Originally Posted: 04/06/2011 - 7:29am | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis Our uses of the earth must be designed to conserve and renew the Earth rather than to deplete or destroy it. ...

Riding the Whirlwind
Originally Posted: 04/06/2011 - 7:29am | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis As the tour continues, a new movement for justice in America is being spread. I can feel it. ...

The Bush Doctrine
Originally Posted: 04/06/2011 - 7:29am | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis If the war in Iraq is the 'practical' expression of George Bush's theology of liberty and freedom, the world is ...

Stumping for Values
Originally Posted: 04/06/2011 - 7:29am | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis The book tour will be a national conversation faith, The day after the election, ...

What's Next?
Originally Posted: 04/06/2011 - 7:29am | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis Neither candidate championed the poor as a moral value A flawed exit poll question ...

Rolling to Overcome Poverty
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:39pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis The 7-year-old's poster said, 'Every Life is Sacred. Stop Poverty.' The children f ...

The Power of Reconciliation
Originally Posted: 04/06/2011 - 7:29am | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis There is probably no more divisive time in America than an election season. There is probably no more divisive time in America than an electi ...

The Religous Right Era Is Over
Originally Posted: 04/06/2011 - 7:29am | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis God is not a Republican. Or a Democrat. God is not a Republican. God i ...

Take Back the Faith
Originally Posted: 04/06/2011 - 7:29am | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis The best contribution of religion is precisely not to be a loyal partisan. Many of ...

The Theology of Torture
Originally Posted: 04/06/2011 - 7:29am | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis Fallible creatures are not to be trusted with empire. Christian theology is uneasy ...

End the Occupation
Originally Posted: 04/06/2011 - 7:29am | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis Events in Iraq dramatically reveal that the U. Events in Iraq dramatically reveal that the U.S. occupation is out of control. In April, U.S. ...

Pro-Life Democrats?
Originally Posted: 03/22/2013 - 4:15pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis There are millions of votes at stake in this liberal miscalculation. The meeting room w ...

The Passion and the Message
Originally Posted: 04/06/2011 - 7:28am | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis To focus on the suffering of Christ apart from Jesus' way of the kingdom misses the central point of the gospels. ...

Bring It On
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:40pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis In the recently published collection of excerpts from William Sloane Coffin's speeches and sermons - Credo - appears thi ...

Evangelical Social Conscience
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:40pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis Our new field organizer for Call to Renewal was working the room at a conference of leaders of local councils of churches and i ...