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Action Institute 02/27/2013
The February issue of Sojourners magazine presents various perspectives on the surge in evangelicalism’s interest in exploring new national and...
The Huffington Post 02/26/2013
HuffPost's Sabrina Siddiqui and Sojourners CEO Jim Wallis weigh in on the looming $85 billion cuts. Plus, the debate over Hagel's...
Christianity Today 02/26/2013
A notable coalition of Christian leaders is urging the federal government to avoid allowing "hungry and poor people" to fall through the...
Current TV 02/26/2013
Rev. David Beckmann, president of Bread for the World, joins John Fugelsang on “Viewpoint” to explain why he signed a “pastoral letter” urging...
CNN Belief Blog 02/25/2013
Wallis, who for many years has helped organize Christian coalitions to lobby Congress on issues such as immigration and poverty, said he is prepared...
Associated Baptist Press 02/25/2013
“Leaders in Washington face serious moral choices on sequester and the budget that will have significant consequences for millions of people across...
Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service 02/25/2013
Lisa Sharon Harper, Director of Mobilizing, Sojourners "On Sunday, a story in USA Today revealed a leaked draft of immigration reform...
The New York Times 02/22/2013
“Enforcing a broken system aggressively right before we’re about to change it is not just not compassionate, it’s cruel,” said Jim Wallis, the chief...
The American Spectator 02/22/2013
This denunciation of AARP and call for entitlement reform contrasts with the atmospherics of the “Circle of Protection” of 2011, when religious...
Baptist Standard 02/22/2013
Richard Land, head of the conservative Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, and progressives like Sojourners founder Jim...
Univision.com 02/22/2013
Wallis is part of the evangelical coalition that is pushing for reform, and he brings a more progressive voice to the table to balance out...
Charlotte Magazine 02/21/2013
These are some of the characters you’ll meet in The Line, a new documentary exploring the changing faces of poverty in America. Linda Midgett, a...
The Huffington Post 02/21/2013
I know I am not the only one who is sick and tired of Washington's manufactured crises around budget and deficit debates. Brinksmanship has...
Politics of Jamie Sanderson 02/20/2013
For far too long, we’ve avoided talking about gun violence in our country. The tragedy in Newtown, Conn., has finally brought our nation’s lax...
Think Progress 02/19/2013
Yet in the last year alone, several new groups and initiatives like Young Evangelicals for Climate Action and the Interfaith Moral Action on Climate...
Neologophilia 02/18/2013
For a year I’ve worn this yellow bracelet on my right wrist, a bracelet sent to every member of Congress by Sojourners, a Christian advocacy group....
Independent Catholic News 02/18/2013
Another major concern is the possibility he could give the go-ahead to the Keystone XL pipeline, a TransCanada project that will deliver Canadian tar...
The Huffington Post 02/15/2013
There is a tradition in the black church named "call and response." It's simply the experience of the preacher "calling" and...
Denver Post 02/15/2013
Colorado evangelicals have joined a national immigration-reform movement that began two years ago with discussions among evangelical leaders and...
In The Warm Hold of Your Loving Mind 02/14/2013
"The wonderful thing about transcendence is that it scoops us up locally and globally, backward and forward. As I participate in a liturgical...