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NPR 04/15/2013
The evangelical movement, historically, has not been supportive of overhauling immigration. But that stance is changing. The Evangelical Immigration...
All Voices 04/15/2013
Gun advocates will take it up a notch starting Monday in an effort to push Congress to act on substantive gun reform. According to a Huffington...
NPR 04/14/2013
"Many people have never heard of him, but he shaped the vocations of so many of us that he shaped the church more than any pastor of his...
The Huffington Post 04/14/2013
It could last several weeks, but family members of victims and survivors of gun violence are planning to hold a round-the-clock vigil on Capitol Hill...
NDTV.com 04/13/2013
The religious leaders gathered on the National Mall in Washington today amidst a makeshift graveyard - 3,300 grave markers in all representing the...
WFSU-FM 04/12/2013
Evangelical pastor Jim Wallis was known for being outspoken on politics and faith. A year ago, his public profile soared to the highest it's...
AFP News 04/12/2013
The US Senate voted to debate the nation's most ambitious gun safety legislation in almost two decades, after a bipartisan group of lawmakers...
The Washington Post 04/12/2013
Pennsylvania, Georgia and Virginia have long been bastions of gun-rights supporters, with vast rural areas and strong hunting traditions. But in...
Weatherford Democrat 04/12/2013
Jim Wallis of the Sojourners said of Cosby: “He never wrote a book, went on television, talked to presidents, planted more churches, built national...
Religion New Service 04/11/2013
Jim Wallis, the evangelical founder of the anti-poverty group Sojourners, said some Christians have seen a passage from the Gospel of Matthew in a...
The Huffington Post 04/11/2013
I was very moved by Arianna Huffington's recent piece called "God, Cellphones, Quarterly Earnings and the Search for the Common Good....
Religion New Service 04/11/2013
Clergy from California to Connecticut created a makeshift graveyard symbolizing victims of gun violence on the National Mall on Thursday (April 11)...
WhitePlains Patch 04/11/2013
The Rev. Jim Wallis, president and CEO of Sojourners, said "It’s past time for our political leaders to find the moral courage to act. The...
Big Journalism (Breitbart) 04/11/2013
"It doesn't have to be this way," said Jim Wallis of the Washington-based Christian activist group Sojourners, a co-sponsor of the...
The Huffington Post 04/11/2013
Today, on the National Mall, I stood with fellow faith leaders, including clergy from Newtown, to remember lives lost at Sandy Hook elementary school...
Comcast Sports Network (CSN) 04/11/2013
“The nation’s conscience was awakened by the mass shootings of children, but every day, every day, 86 people today, eight children today will die,...
WUSA9 04/11/2013
On Thursday morning, volunteers and members of the clergy from Newtown, Ct. placed more than 3,300 "grave markers" in a mock cemetery on...
The Huffington Post 04/11/2013
In front of 3,300 mock grave markers representing Americans who have died from gun violence since the Newtown tragedy, the Rev. Matt Crebbin will...
MSNBC 04/11/2013
Rev. Michael McBride of PICO National Network talks with Rachel Maddow from the site of a vigil at the National Mall in honor of gun violence victims...
CNN Belief Blog 04/11/2013
“It’s past time for our political leaders to find the moral courage to act,” said the Rev. Jim Wallis, president and CEO of Sojourners. “The majority...