It wouldn’t be exactly true to say that I spent a year and a half in Malawi, Africa, because of Nicholas Kristof, but it wouldn’t be entirely wrong, either.
Source: Religion News Service | Rachel Marie Stone
Source: The Capital Times (Madison) | Phil Haslanger
Most pastors these days are at least a bit wiser both theologically and practically in how they deal with someone facing domestic violence. That’s one result from a groundbreaking survey released last week by Sojourners, a national Christian social justice organization.
Source: Urban Christian News
On a brighter side, 80% of faith leaders state that they would take the right steps in trying to reduce the violence if they were given the right training and resources to properly serve their congregations. “This is a conversation the church needs to be having but isn’t,” said Jim Wallis, president and founder of faith and social justice advocacy group Sojourners. “We cannot remain silent when our sisters and brothers live under the threat of violence in their homes and communities.”
Source: The Cap Times | Phil Haslanger
The good news is that this is a fictional scenario. Most pastors these days are at least a bit wiser both theologically and practically in how they deal with someone facing domestic violence. That’s one result from a groundbreaking survey released last week by Sojourners, a national Christian social justice organization.
Source: Winnipeg Free Press | John Longhurst
Is the church in Canada in danger of being persecuted?
That's what Bob Kuhn, president of Trinity Western University, maintains. In an interview in ChristianWeek, Kuhn stated that the opposition to Trinity Western's proposed law school could mark the beginning of "a new era of persecution" against the church in Canada.
Source: Womens eNews
Pastors, considering themselves not equipped to respond, often fail to address domestic and sexual violence appropriately, according to a June 19 IMA World Health report. Seventy-five percent of Protestant pastors underestimate the amount of violence occurring in their communities and rarely speak out about the issue, according to a LifeWay survey, but 80 percent said they would take action if they had the resources.
Source: Time Magazine (online) | Jim Wallis
When considering what's next after graduation, think of others.
Source: The Gazette (Colorado Springs) | Paul Marshall
For at least three reasons, the contemporary persecution of Christians demands attention: It is occurring on a massive scale, it is underreported, and in many parts of the world it is rapidly growing.
Source: Think Progress | Jack Jenkins
Members of the United Church of Christ’s (UCC) mid-Atlantic conference voted to boycott the Washington Redskins football team this weekend, the latest in a series of efforts by local faith communities to pressure the club to change its controversial name.
Source: Huffington Post | Antonia Blumberg, Yasmine Hafiz
Using faith to promote social justice
Source: Melissa Harris-Perry
Jim Wallis, president and founder of Sojourners, joins Melissa Harris-Perry to talk about illegal immigration, the influx of child migrants along the U.S. border, and why it’s a moral, ethical and Christian issue.
Source: Morning Joe
Rev. Jim Wallis joins Morning Joe to discuss his new book “The (UN)Common Good: How the Gospel Brings Hope to a World Divided.” Rev. Wallis also discusses immigration reform.
Source: Religion News Service | Kimberly Winston
Fuzzy declarations like that give many atheists the heebie-jeebies. Not Schaeffer. While he sometimes writes lines that could have spilled from the pen of arch-atheist Richard Dawkins — he calls the Bible “disgustingly misogynistic” — on other pages he seems to borrow an idea from liberal Christians like Jim Wallis.
“I also believe that the spiritual reality hovering over, in and through me calls me to love, trust and hear the voice of my Creator,” he writes. “It seems to me that there is an off-stage and an onstage quality to my existence. I live onstage, but I sense another crew working off stage. Sometimes I hear their voices singing in a way that’s as eerily beautiful as the off-stage chorus in an opera.”
Source: The Wall Street Journal | Reid Epstein
The Evangelical Immigration Table, a group of 11 religious leaders ranging from White House confidante Jim Wallis, the president of the Christian social justice agency Sojourners, to Russell Moore, the leader of the Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, had planned to use Mr. Cantor’s widely assumed primary victory as a jumping off point to pressure him to proceed on immigration reform legislation.
Source: The Christian Century | Matthew Bowman
Last week, evangelical congregations across America began screening a documentary called The Stranger: Immigration, Scripture and the American Dream, produced by a group called the Evangelical Immigration Table. Among EIT’s advocates are a host of uncommon bedfellows: Mathew Staver of the Liberty University School of Law and Jim Wallis of Sojourners, Leith Anderson of the National Association of Evangelicals and Russell Moore of the Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, and popular pastors Max Lucado and Wilfredo de Jesús.
Source: Christian Post | Morgan Lee
Sojourners President Jim Wallis tweeted on Tuesday night, that "Eric Cantor was not an ally of immigration reform but a likely obstacle. His loss could give Speaker Boehner the chance to finally pass it."
"Immigration reform is now the moral test of Congress. With Eric Cantor now out of the way, it's all up to one man — Speaker John Boehner," he added.
Source: Politico | Seung Min Kim
Immigration reform is almost certainly dead on Capitol Hill this year.
Many top sources close to the issue privately acknowledged after House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s shocking defeat Tuesday night that the already uphill battle for immigration reform was dealt the knockout blow.
Source: Christian Post | Morgan Lee
What does Jim Wallis believe will end poverty?
Work, education and family.
Source: Acton Institute | Elise Hilton
It is not often that Sojourners president Jim Wallis puts forth ideas that align with those of the Acton Institute. However, in a recent interview, Wallis (touting his new book, Uncommon Good: How the Gospel Brings Hope to a World Divided) said that he recognizes that there are three keys to ending poverty: work and economic activity, innovation, education.
Source: Time Magazine (online) | Jim Wallis
With Cantor out, Speaker Boehner, the faith community is counting on you to act on immigration reform.