We have Ebola on the brain. Amid so much anxiety, we turn to All Saints' Day in the church's calendar.
Source: The Huntsville Times | Jim Wallis| October 27, 2014
In fact, it seems that these days, the ancient idea of the common good has become most uncommon.
Source: Huffington Post | Jim Wallis| October 24, 2014
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| October 24, 2014
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| October 23, 2014
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| October 22, 2014
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| October 22, 2014
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| October 21, 2014
It's been my observation, I told her, that many white individuals feel duty bound to defend whiteness.
Source: Capital Commentary | Byron Borger| October 20, 2014
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| October 19, 2014
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| October 18, 2014
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| October 17, 2014
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| October 15, 2014
Ferguson must be a moral wake-up call to white parents, not just another warning to black parents.
Source: Huffington Post | Jim Wallis| October 15, 2014
Twenty of us were arrested in Ferguson yesterday for an act of repentance.
Source: CNN Belief Blog | Lisa Sharon Harper| October 15, 2014
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 Live | Alyona Minkovski| October 14, 2014
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| October 14, 2014
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| October 14, 2014
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| October 13, 2014
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| October 11, 2014
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.