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Choosing Life
Originally Posted: 04/06/2011 - 7:25am | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis During the run During the run-up to the Iraq war, I learned two valuable lessons th During the ru ...

Whose Sacrifice?
Originally Posted: 04/06/2011 - 7:25am | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis The beneficiaries of wartime tax cuts and contract deals are nothing less than war profiteers. Al ...

Class Warfare
Originally Posted: 04/06/2011 - 7:25am | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis 'People hate this kind of talk. Raw truth is never popular.' I did a right-wing talk sh ...

The Things That Make for Peace
Originally Posted: 08/28/2011 - 7:23pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis As [Jesus] came near and saw the city, he wept over it, saying, "If you, even you, had only recognized on this day the thi ...

The Lessons of War
Originally Posted: 08/28/2011 - 7:24pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis The American-led war against Iraq has begun. The American-led war against Iraq has begun. Over th ...

A Momentous Choice
Originally Posted: 08/28/2011 - 7:24pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis We had only a few weeks to organize "Pray and Act: A Service for Peace and Justice" on January 20, the holiday of Mar ...

Prophetic Leadership
Originally Posted: 08/28/2011 - 7:25pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis Whatever Christians decide about war with Iraq, they must do it on the basis of Christian theology. Liking and trusting Preside ...

Disarm Iraq…Without War
Originally Posted: 08/28/2011 - 7:25pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis Saddam Hussein is an evil ruler, no doubt about it. Saddam Hussein is an evil ruler, no doubt abou ...

Amos and WorldCom
Originally Posted: 08/28/2011 - 7:25pm | Type: Magazine Article

having improperly recorded $6.4 billion in revenue. WorldCom, where the story continues to unravel, ...

What Must Be Done
Originally Posted: 08/28/2011 - 7:25pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis Having a 3-and-a-half-year-old son has made the horrific revelations about the sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests eve ...

Time to Come to Washington
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 8:50pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis For those who care about poverty in America, the coming months are a critical time, a turning point similar to the New Deal of ...

The Sin of Enron
Originally Posted: 08/28/2011 - 7:25pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis Sounds like a great Old Testament saga, doesn't it?—the sin of Enron. Well, this may be a more biblical tale than we think ...

Report from Ground Zero
Originally Posted: 08/28/2011 - 7:25pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis I just returned from Ground Zero in New York City. I just returned from Ground Zero in New York C ...

A Light in the Darkness
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 8:52pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis This edition of Sojourners went to press just as the U.S. military strikes in Afghanistan began, which makes this special issue ...

Courage Among Friends
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 8:52pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis My wife, Joy, my son, Luke, and I had dinner recently with our friend Michael Lerner and his wife, Debora, in their Berkeley, C ...

Terms of Engagement
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 8:53pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis Religious leaders demand (and get) help for working families. A dramatic story occurred behind the ...

Eyes on the Prize
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 8:54pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis Will witches, cults, and strange religions soon get taxpayers' dollars? In the short period si ...

The Conscience of the State
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 8:54pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis Breakfast in the White House can be dangerous to the prophetic vocation. President Bush's supp ...

It Was a Tie
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 8:54pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis President-elect George W. President-elect George W. Bush, as a victor who lost the popular vote and ...

Lifting All Boats
Originally Posted: 04/06/2011 - 6:11pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis Let the good times roll! President Bill Clinton was absolutely beaming as he reported the U.S. Census Bureau's annual pov ...

Poverty Is Not a Left-Wing Issue
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:27pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis Overtaking poverty will take all of our best values and insights. In the Faith Works book tour ...

Not Your Average Book Tour
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:28pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis The last city on my recent Faith Works book tour was Milwaukee. The last city on my recent Faith ...

If Not Me, Who?
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:28pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis The Covenant to Overcome Poverty is as simple as it is potentially life-changing. Seattle now has n ...

Seattle: Changing the Rules
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:28pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis The real story in Seattle was not the violence of demonstrators nor the misbehavior of police. From ...

45 Predictions for the New Millennium
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:28pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis The Spice Girls won't be remembered. Martin Luther King will. Everyone says, Don’t make predic ...

East Timor
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:28pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis A clear moral test Once again this fall, as in Kosovo last spring, the world was confronted with ge ...

What's an FBO?
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:28pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis The emergence of the term "faith-based organization" in political discussion (and its acronym FBO) may signal one of ...

Tears of Sorrow and Joy
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:28pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis Just over 18 months ago, my mother was dancing at my wedding. Only a month later, my mom discovered that she had cancer of the ...

Lessons (Not) Learned
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:29pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis President Clinton said today that recent reports of police misconduct had shaken people’s faith in the police, and he proposed ...

No More Sanctions, No More Bombing
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:29pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis United States policy toward Iraq needs a radical change. United States policy toward Iraq needs a r ...

Topple a Tyrant, Protect the Innocent
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:29pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis In November, once again, Iraq responded to a military threat and signaled that it would allow U.N. weapons inspectors to resume ...

Clinton's Repentance--And Ours
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:29pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis Many of those present for Bill Clinton’s prayer breakfast repentance were moved. Unlike his August 17 address to the nation, th ...

The Body of Christ
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:30pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis This summer I taught two weeklong courses, one in western Canada and one in the American Southwest. ...

The One Constant Is Change
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:32pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis Sojourners Community Sojourners Community It was both a blessing and an opportunity to mee ...

Seeking Moral Consistency
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:33pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis Religious persecution. It’s becoming a hot topic, with a protest against it gathering strong momentum around the world. It’s ab ...

The Moral Issue
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:43pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis In the first stage of the White House sex scandal, the media was obsessed with how allegations of sexual misconduct and possibl ...

A Time To Act
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:43pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis Several notes and e-mails commented on the mention of my then wife-to-be in my column last month. S ...

Celebrity and Substance
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:43pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis St. Augustine said there is a God-shaped hole in the human spirit. St. Augustine said there ...

Moses Was No Superhero
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:43pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis It started with a phone call from Jeffrey Katzenberg, a director in Steven Spielberg’s DreamWorks film company. Katzenb ...

Unexpected Allies
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:43pm | Type: Magazine Article

In a 64-36 vote in May, the U.S. Senate voted to ban what has become known as "partial birth ...

The Hurricane is Coming
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:43pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis The nation’s social welfare policy is changing dramatically, and the religious community will play a vital role in the ...

The Church Steps Forward
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:43pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis From welfare reform to overcoming poverty. A strategy for action. Everything the churches have ...

Common Ground Politics
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:43pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis During the fall 1996 Call to Renewal tour, we had the opportunity to speak directly to thousands of people across the country, ...

No Ways Tired
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:43pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis I'm beginning this column at about 30,000 feet, en route to Akron, Ohio. We're doing the Who Speaks for God? ...

A Great National Sin
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:43pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis In deciding whether or not to sign the Republican welfare bill, Bill Clinton faced the most serious moral test of his p ...

Lift Every Voice
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:43pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis If the opening campaign ads from the Democrats and Republicans are any indication, it could be a long fall. ...

Family Values
Originally Posted: 03/21/2013 - 4:39pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis Two recent films have caused me much reflection. Two recent films have caused me much reflection. T ...

What's Next for Call to Renewal?
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:44pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis When we heard the weather report predicting another snow storm on its way to Washington, D.C., our hearts sank. ...

God Hears the Cry of the Poor
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:44pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis Woe to the legislators of infamous laws, to those who issue tyrannical decrees, who refuse justice to the unfortunate who chea ...

Time to Organize
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:44pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis Last spring, Sojourners helped to mobilize a broad group of evangelical, pentecostal, black, Catholic, and mainline Protestant ...