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05/13/2012
The Rev. Jim Wallis, another religious adviser to Mr. Obama and the president and chief executive of Sojourners, a left-leaning evangelical organization, said that he had fielded calls since the announcement from pastors across the country, including African-American and Hispanic ministers. Religious leaders, he said, are deeply divided, with some seeing it as the government forcing clergy to accept a definition of marriage that they consider anathema to their teachings.
10/30/2011
Predictably the media will report the “religious issues” in the coming election as abortion, gay marriage, perhaps evolution and, this year, maybe Mormonism. But a growing number of people from the faith community, especially a younger generation, will also see the alarming Census number on growing poverty rates in America as a fundamental moral and religious issue that every candidate must address. And how they plan to deal with America’s growing economic disparity, now being protested by the Occupy Movement, is likely to be a primary factor in how many in the faith community will vote in the next election.
10/18/2011
Scholars like Dr. Collins and Mr. Noll, and publications like Books & Culture, Sojourners and The Christian Century, offer an alternative to the self-anointed leaders. They recognize that the Bible does not condemn evolution and says next to nothing about gay marriage. They understand that Christian theology can incorporate Darwin’s insights and flourish in a pluralistic society.
07/30/2011
Jim Wallis is quoted by columnist Nicholas Kristof regarding the death of John Stott.
07/07/2011
Rev. Wallis and the Southern Baptist Convention's Richard Land discuss the moral issues as stake in our national budget.
03/31/2011
Hunger is a disease; starvation is its extreme form. Hunger can lead to starvation; starvation to death. Obvious, no?
03/29/2011
I stopped eating on Monday and joined around 4,000 other people in a fast to call attention to Congressional budget proposals that would make huge cuts in programs for the poor and hungry.
03/11/2010
Last week, the conservative broadcaster Glenn Beck called on Christians to leave their churches if they heard any preaching about social or economic justice because, he claimed, those were slogans affiliated with Nazism and Communism.
This week, the Rev. Jim Wallis, a liberal evangelical leader in Washington, D.C., called on Christians to leave Glenn Beck.
01/18/2010
The effort has been backed by Richard Viguerie, a fundraiser and activist considered the father of the modern conservative movement. Viguerie, in a July 2009 essay in Sojourners magazine, wrote that executions are supposed to take the life of the guilty -- but noted there are enough flaws in the system to fear an innocent person has been put to death.
11/28/2009
What happened to both Wheaton and Jenna Liao tells much about the shifts in evangelical Christianity as a whole. Her Christian education exposed her to examples of religious idealism from St. Thomas Aquinas to Mother Teresa to the progressive evangelical ministers Jim Wallis and Soong-Chan Rah.
