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09/26/2012
As part of a broader campaign to bring light to the new faces of poverty in the aftermath of the Great Recession, Bread for the World, in partnership with Sojourners, has produced a documentary film called The Line. The 40-minute film uncovers the emerging and entrenched faces of poverty in our country—such as a former banker and single father in the suburbs who now relies on a food pantry and an aging Louisiana fisherman whose shrimp business has been devastated by the recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
09/12/2012
Leaders who will speak at the press conference include Bishop Stephen Blaire (chair, committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, US Conference of Catholic Bishops), Rev. Michael Livingston (former president, National Council of Churches), Dr. Barbara Williams Skinner (co-facilitator, National African-American Clergy Network), Rev. David Beckmann (president, Bread for the World), Rev. Jim Wallis (president, Sojourners), Rev. Gabriel Salguero (president, National Latino Evangelical Coalition) and Galen Carey (vice-president, National Association of Evangelicals).
07/25/2012
Sojourners CEO Rev. Jim Wallis is one of a number of national leaders supporting a "first-of-its-kind national bus tour to engage Americans about our nation's deteriorating financial condition — and show them what they can do to help restore fiscal sanity."
04/07/2008
Other panelists included Rev. Jim Wallis, founder of Sojourners ministries and magazine, and Ari Gordon, assistant director of interreligious affairs for the American Jewish Committee.
09/07/2007
The U.S. delegation last February, which also included the National Council of Churches and Sojourners/Call to Renewal, was the first U.S. delegation to meet with an Iranian president in Iran since the fall of the Shah in the late 1970s. The delegation returned to the United States with a proposal that the U.S. and Iranian governments immediately engage in direct, face-to-face talks and promote more people-to-people exchanges among religious leaders, legislators and civil society.
08/29/2007
Forty major religious and other leaders including Rev. Jim Wallis of Sojourners/Call to Renewal; Argentinean Nobel Laureate Adolfo Perez Esquivel; John Thomas, President, United Church of Christ; Ron Sider, Founder, Evangelicals for Social Action; and Rabbi Michael Lerner of Tikkun will participate in day-long fasts during the same time. Up to 20,000 Americans are expected to participate, according to Jubilee USA Network.
07/25/2007
"Congress is faced with a real test of moral leadership in changing currently unjust policy that props up the wealthiest farmers and landowners at the expense of struggling family farms and people living in poverty at home and abroad. The Fairness Amendment provides desperately needed reform to improve conservation, nutrition, rural development." Rev. Jim Wallis, Editor and Executive Director of Sojourners/Call to Renewal.
05/16/2007
Jim Wallis, the bestselling author of God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It, and a founder of Sojourners, invited the leading Democratic candidates to participate in a substantive national conversation on faith and values, with a particular emphasis on poverty.
