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06/20/2004
The Rev. Jim Wallis, head of Call to Renewal, a coalition of religious groups devoted to fighting poverty, said he believes the Christian right is "out of touch" with most Christians' concerns. "Do we really think that Jesus's primary concern in this election year would be a marriage amendment? With the poverty rate rising, with one in six of all U.S. children and one in three children of color living below the poverty line, with more than a billion people around the world living on less than $1 a day?" Wallis asked.
01/11/2004
Jim Wallis leads the District-based evangelical social justice organization Sojourners - the recent sponsor of ads stating, "God Isn't a Republican...or a Democrat." The Bible, Wallis points out, contains "2,000 verses citing God's and Jesus's deep concern about the poor."
10/06/2003
Jim Wallis is the convener and president of the Washington-based Call to Renewal, an association of religious groups concerned about poverty. He sees a disconnect when government "is cutting resources to the poor while cutting taxes on the rich" and then asks faith-based groups to pick up the slack.
08/03/2003
"We're not just saying 'No' to war. We're not just saying, 'Do nothing.' We're saying, 'Here's a third way,' " said Jim Wallis, editor of the evangelical journal Sojourners and a member of the group.
02/19/2003
"It is five minutes to midnight right now, and at that crucial hour we're going to pray and plead that we can avert this war and all the catastrophe it can bring," said the Rev. Jim Wallis, a District-based social justice activist and editor of Sojourners magazine. Wallis said he could not remember a similar situation in recent U.S. history "where the churches were so opposed to a war before it started."
01/21/2003
At Washington National Cathedral, the 90-minute King Day service was as much an antiwar event as a religious observance. The audience of several thousand broke into applause when the Rev. Jim Wallis, executive director and editor of Sojourners magazine, called on Bush to create a "faith-based initiative" to end the threat of war.
12/10/2002
"A congressional decision has been made, and many regard this as the end of the national debate on war with Iraq. We are here to say the vote in Congress is simply the beginning of the debate," said Jim Wallis, editor of the evangelical journal Sojourners.
08/15/2002
"It's an unaccountable legal mechanism that could imprison U.S. citizens without any review or oversight...And we already have one of those."
03/10/2002
It was wack again on Wall Street. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 183 points. The Nasdaq was disrespecting investors, too. The economy doesn't appear to be getting jiggy anytime soon. So it looks like there won't be much bling-bling under the tree this Christmas.
02/26/2002
Jim Wallis, who heads Call to Renewal, a federation of religious organizations dedicated to winning the poor a better break, suggests a formula for peace in the marriage wars. "Healthy marriages are good for economic stability," he says. "Economic stability is good for healthy marriages."
