Hearts & Minds

Jim Wallis 8-01-2005
Palestinian grievances are real and justified. So are Israeli fears.
Jim Wallis 7-01-2005

We must never claim that those who disagree with our judgments are not people of real faith.

Jim Wallis 6-01-2005

Many people - especially leaders - tried to claim the pope as their own.

Jim Wallis 5-01-2005
Our uses of the earth must be designed to conserve and renew the Earth rather than to deplete or destroy it.
Jim Wallis 4-01-2005
As the tour continues, a new movement for justice in America is being spread. I can feel it.
Jim Wallis 3-01-2005
If the war in Iraq is the 'practical' expression of George Bush's theology of liberty and freedom, the world is in serious trouble.
Jim Wallis 2-01-2005
The book tour will be a national conversation faith,
Jim Wallis 1-01-2005
Neither candidate championed the poor as a moral value
Jim Wallis 12-01-2004
The 7-year-old's poster said, 'Every Life is Sacred. Stop Poverty.'
Jim Wallis 11-01-2004
There is probably no more divisive time in America than an election season.

There is probably no more divisive time in America than an election season. So I thought it appropriate to tell a personal story of reconciliation that is very important to me, and one that I have never told before. It is about my relationship with a

Jim Wallis 10-01-2004
God is not a Republican. Or a Democrat.
Jim Wallis 9-01-2004
The best contribution of religion is precisely not to be a loyal partisan.
Jim Wallis 8-01-2004
Fallible creatures are not to be trusted with empire.
Jim Wallis 7-01-2004

Events in Iraq dramatically reveal that the U.S. occupation is out of control. In April, U.S. Marines began a siege of the city of Falluja following the deaths and mutilation of four American private contractors. Intense battles ensued, including street-to-street fighting between Marines and Iraqi insurgents during the day, followed by attacks from U.S. gunships and jets at night. During the lulls in fighting, casualties were collected and the dead buried in the soccer stadium.

The U.S. was planning a final all-out assault, but at the last minute backed off and placed a former Iraqi Army general in charge of security. Heavy fighting and intense bombing throughout Iraq killed nearly 140 American troops and 10 times that many Iraqi civilians in April, with unknown hundreds more wounded.

One of the first journalists into Falluja after the lifting of the siege, London Observer reporter Patrick Graham, quoted Dr. Mohammed Samarae's descriptions of the casualties treated at his hospital. "Ninety percent of the injured were civilians - children, old people, women." The characteristics of the wounds show they were American inflicted, said the doctor. "We have had a lot of experience of U.S. weapons." Mustafa Hamid, a 22-year-old student, said, "All these people were killed because of four dead American soldiers…. The Americans are killing people who had nothing to do with the death of those four soldiers."

I was in London the first week of May. The lead story in the British media (and the U.S. press) was the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by American and British soldiers. The painful irony escaped nobody - after going to war to liberate the Iraqi people from the brutality of Saddam Hussein and his torture chambers, some of the liberators are now accused of brutalizing and torturing Iraqi detainees - in the same Abu Ghraib prison used by Saddam.

Jim Wallis 6-01-2004

There are millions of votes at stake in this liberal miscalculation.

Jim Wallis 5-01-2004
To focus on the suffering of Christ apart from Jesus' way of the kingdom misses the central point of the gospels.
Jim Wallis 4-01-2004

In the recently published collection of excerpts from William Sloane Coffin's speeches and sermons -Credo- appears this gem: "When the rich take from the poor, it's called an economic plan."

Jim Wallis 3-01-2004

Our new field organizer for Call to Renewal was working the room at a conference of leaders of local councils of churches and interfaith organizations from around the country.

Jim Wallis 2-01-2004

The Democrats just got some bad news on religion.

Jim Wallis 1-01-2004

During the run-up to the Iraq war, I learned two valuable lessons that have stayed with me.