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Human Circles of Protection: Jim Wallis Visits the Chicago Circle at North Park University

by God's Politics Editor 11-16-2011 | 9:28pm
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Sojourners' CEO Jim Wallis visited Chicago's North Park University today to march with students, faculty, and staff to form a “Human Circle of Protection” at the North Park Friendship Center. Jim shared his thoughts with Covenant Media Services after the march.

"We are saying, 'God is watching how you decide to cut a deficit,'" Wallis said." A deficit is a moral issue. But how we cut it — what we do, who suffers, who bears the pain of it — is a moral issue too."

(Video courtesy of CovChurch.tv)

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