What happened in Ottawa is also a reminder for me that while we can't remove all violence, we can take steps as a country to reduce it.
Source: The Huntsville Times | Kay Campbell
Rabbi David Saperstein, the man declared by Newsweek magazine to be the "Most Influential Rabbi in America" will speak in Huntsville at the for the Nov. 2-3, 2014, conference, Exploring Faith Intersections.
Source: Blog Talk Radio | Mark Jerrell
Her first book, Evangelical Does Not Equal Republican…or Democrat, offers a power-packed look at the roots of evangelical faith, how evangelicals strayed so far from those roots, and what is bringing them back.
Source: Christian Post | Lisa Sharon Harper
We thought: What if the church at large began to own its sin and confessed it to the world? And what if we took those confessions and worked them out through active repentance?
Source: The Courier-Journal (Louisville) | Beverly Weinhold
Believing it will never happen in my church we deny and dismiss disclosures. But credible statistics say domestic violence cuts across class, race and religion.
Source: The Times-Picayune (New Orleans) | Jarvis DeBerry
It's been my observation, I told her, that many white individuals feel duty bound to defend whiteness.
Source: Capital Commentary | Byron Borger
Learning more about these complex and harmful past policies, whose implications reverberate in the present, will make us better neighbors, better citizens, and more sensitive to language, feelings, and experiences of others in the public square.
Source: Atlanta Blackstar | Taylor Gordon
The Rev. Jim Wallis is sending a powerful “wake-up call” to white Christians who are refusing to fight back against a “racialized police system.”
Source: Deseret News | Kelsey Dallas
Tension between protesters and police officers boiled over again this week in Ferguson, Missouri. Dozens of people were arrested, including prominent faith leaders like scholar and activist Cornel West and Rev. Jim Wallis, president and founder of Sojourners magazine.
Source: Black Like Moi | April Taylor
Rev. Jim Wallis, who is a Christian writer and political activist and also founded Sojourners, marched with fellow clergy during Ferguson October’s Moral Monday protest.
Source: Time Magazine (online) | Jim Wallis
Ferguson must be a moral wake-up call to white parents, not just another warning to black parents.
Source: CNN Belief Blog | Lisa Sharon Harper
This is what it takes – this level of energy, focus and expense – to prosecute the killer of a black man in America, if that killer is white.
Source: Huffington Post | Jim Wallis
Twenty of us were arrested in Ferguson yesterday for an act of repentance.
Source: Huffington Post | Carol Kuruvilla
Clergy members were at the front lines in Ferguson during mass protests on Monday that rocked a city still haunted by the fatal police shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown.
Source: Huffington Post Live | Alyona Minkovski
President and founder of Sojourners Rev. Jim Wallis is calling for all Christians to take action to prevent a repeat of Ferguson.
Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch | Lilly Fowler
Clergy advanced on South Florissant Road determined to force one question on a community of officers: Will you repent?
Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch | Paul Hampel
At the end of the FergusonOctober weekend that drew thousands of protesters to events across the area, some local activists are wondering where they go from here.
Source: Christian Post | Stephanie Samuel
Sojourners President and Founder Jim Wallis, one of several faith leaders who are heading to Ferguson, Missouri this weekend to march for justice, is challenging Christians to put their faith ahead of their race when it comes to issues concerning racial relations.
Source: The Ed Show | Ed Schultz
Interfaith leaders organized a mass meeting to foster a dialogue within the Ferguson community in the wake of yet another shooting.
Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch | Lilly Fowler
The Rev. Jim Wallis, founder of the Christian magazine Sojourners and a spiritual adviser to President Barack Obama, will be one of the key speakers at an interfaith event related to Ferguson Sunday (Oct. 12) at St. Louis University.