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06/29/2006
Democratic phenom Barack Obama, the subject of the latest presidential boomlet, was nearing the end of a thoughtful speech about religion in politics yesterday at a church in Thomas Circle when he mentioned the Sermon on the Mount.The audience of left-leaning Christian leaders went nuts, apparently interpreting this as a barb at the Bush administration and the war in Iraq. But Obama was being rhetorical, and was not suggesting the Pentagon should surrender to the meek.
05/28/2006
Jim Wallis (the author of the influential God's Politics ) and others on the religious left have criticized evangelicals for getting Jesus's politics wrong, Wills insists that Jesus had no politics to get, that "his reign is not of that order." Wills wants to see a great wall constructed between American religion and American politics, and he is determined to have Jesus do the heavy lifting.
05/20/2006
Liberal evangelicals are " leaping out of the closet and they are saying 'Enough is enough,' " said Jack Pannell, spokesman for Sojourners, a Washington-based evangelical social justice ministry. "Evangelical Christians are not all white people living in the suburbs and only concerned with abortion and same-sex marriage."
02/02/2006
Profile of Sen. Danforth: Jim Wallis, the left-leaning author of "God's Politics," declares hopefully that "the monologue of the religious right is finally over and the new dialogue has just begun. The answer to bad religion isn't secularism, it's better religion. Moderate and centrist evangelicals and Catholics are going to shape the future."
12/14/2005
Jim Wallis, editor of the liberal Christian journal Sojourners and an organizer of today's protest, was not buying it. Such conservative religious leaders "have agreed to support cutting food stamps for poor people if Republicans support them on judicial nominees," he said. "They are trading the lives of poor people for their agenda. They're being, and this is the worst insult, unbiblical."
12/10/2005
"On this budget, we have the starkest choice we've had in a long time -- tax cuts for the wealthiest versus food stamps and Medicaid," said Jim Wallis of the Christian activist group Sojourners.
11/05/2005
U.S. Catholic bishops launched a campaign yesterday to change the country's immigration system, saying they would reach into the pews to build support for proposals that would grant residence to millions of people here illegally.
11/04/2005
American clergy sex abuse victims brought their campaign for reform Monday to the center of Roman Catholicism, demanding Vatican officials bar Cardinal Bernard Law from celebrating an important Mass mourning Pope John Paul II.
11/04/2005
Bush has nominated Bolton as ambassador to the United Nations, an organization Bolton has described as irrelevant and corrupt.
09/12/2005
"Sometimes it takes a natural disaster to reveal a social disaster," said Jim Wallis, editor of Sojourner's, a liberal evangelical journal.
