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: Capital Commentary | Byron Borger
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: Huffington Post | Jim Wallis
Twenty of us were arrested in Ferguson yesterday for an act of repentance.
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: Time Magazine (online) | Jim Wallis
Ferguson must be a moral wake-up call to white parents, not just another warning to black parents.
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: 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: 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: Huffington Post | Jim Wallis
In the past few months, the world has witnessed the worst outbreak of Ebola since the disease was first identified in 1976 --- it has already claimed the lives of more than 3,400 people.
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.
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 | Christine Byers, Robert Patrick
A march to St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch’s office today will kick off days of marches, rallies and civil disobedience planned by organizers who demand action on behalf of Brown and others they say struggle against racial profiling and police violence.
Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch | Lilly Fowler
In the following Q&A, Wallis talks about how faith played a role in his coming to St. Louis and how his past involvement in the civil rights era compares to today.
Source: St. Louis American | Bridjes O'Neil
People from across the country will converge on Ferguson for a Weekend of Resistance, October 10-13, to demand justice for Michael Brown.
Source: Huffington Post | Antonia Blumberg
Clergy have been in the midst of the struggle in Ferguson, MO since protests broke out following the shooting of Michael Brown.
Source: The Huntsville Times | Kay Campbell
"We have a system of justice in this country that treats you much better if you're rich and guilty than if you're poor and innocent,"