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02/15/2010
Jim Wallis and Jeannie Choi speak with Elizabeth Warren, who is on a new mission to push Congress to create a consumer financial protection agency in the next few weeks.
01/29/2010
Rev. Jim Wallis is in Davos, Switzerland this week providing leadership to the ethics and values pillar, one of six pillars, at the World Economic Forum.
According to recent survey findings released by the World Economic Forum and Georgetown University, two-thirds of the 130,000 respondents, from ten countries, including the United States, believe that the current economic crisis is also a crisis of ethics and values. In response, the World Economic Forum has placed corporate ethics and personal values as one of the six core pillars of this week’s conference.
01/22/2010
Rev. Jim Wallis, president and founder of Sojourners, the largest network of progressive Christians in the nation, and bestselling author, launches groundbreaking new book, “Rediscovering Values: On Wall Street, Main Street and Your Street,” and has embarked on a nationwide media and publicity tour, with stops on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, MSNBC’s Morning Joe, and PBS’s The Tavis Smiley Show.
01/06/2010
Reverend Jim Wallis, President and founder of Sojourners, the largest network of progressive Christians in the nation, and bestselling author, launches groundbreaking new book, “Rediscovering Values: On Wall Street, Main Street and Your Street,” embarks on nationwide media and publicity tour, opens new year with provocative column in Sunday’s Washington Post Outlook .
12/11/2009
Sojourners, this week, launched “Finding Our Way in the New Economy”. This nationwide campaign, to educate the public about the need for a moral recovery as well as a financial recovery, provides resources, tools and reflections for understanding the impact on families, communities and society when a market-based economy is greed-driven instead of morally based. The resources, tools and reflections will focus on the following issues:
12/10/2009
Sojourners magazine, a monthly publication that addresses issues of faith, politics, and culture from a biblical perspective, received two prestigious 2009 Silver Eddie Awards from industry-leader FOLIO: magazine. The Eddie Awards recognize excellence in magazine editorial and design and are presented by FOLIO, the leading publication for magazine professionals. Sojourners magazine won silver in the Consumer, Religious/Spiritual category for a full issue and silver in the “single article” for the same category. These highly esteemed awards come on the heels of earning 25 honors from the Associated Church Press and the Evangelical Press Association this past spring.
12/02/2009
The decision by President Obama to send additional troops to Afghanistan saddens me. I believe it is a mistake, it is the wrong direction for U.S. foreign policy, and it is disappointing to many of us in the faith community and our friends who spearhead the on-the-ground development efforts in Afghanistan and around the world.
11/19/2009
Reverend Jim Wallis, President and CEO of Sojourners, the largest network of progressive Christians in the nation, today released a letter to President Obama calling for a “whole new approach in Afghanistan.”
Joined by a growing list of currently more than 20 faith and moral leaders across the nation, the letter calls on the President to consider a “different strategy that we would name: the humanitarian and development surge.”
10/29/2009
Reverend Jim Wallis, President and founder of Sojourners, the largest network of progressive Christians in the nation, today released the following piece about United States activity in Afghanistan calling the current options on the table in Washington too narrow and offering a new approach.
10/27/2009
Reverend Jim Wallis, President and founder of Sojourners, the largest network of progressive Christians in the nation, today released the following statement raising grave concerns about Randall Terry’s (Operation Rescue founder) “Burn in Hell” contest including the declaration that fellow Americans will “burn in hell.”
