Politics

Jim Wallis 11-19-2007

Thanksgiving is the time of year when American generosity is clearly visible. We make donations to our local food banks and homeless shelters and volunteer in soup kitchens. But do we really believe that is the solution to hunger?


Mark Winne, former director of Connecticut's Hartford Food System, answered the question in yesterday's Washington Post. In a piece titled

Jim Wallis 11-16-2007

A reader asked about my post yesterday:



You say that your opposition is close to making Christian ministry illegal. Would you care to elaborate on this? What sorts of ministries are being made illegal? Where is this being done? What laws are being [...]

Jim Wallis 11-15-2007

Last spring, Sojourners helped launch Christians for Comprehensive Immigration Reform. Following Congress' failure to pass meaningful reform, we have continued to work to provide churches and clergy with effective educational materials, encouraged and mobilized congregations to oppose punitive [...]

Jim Wallis 11-13-2007

New studies managed by the Pew Charitable Trusts show us how far the country still needs to go in achieving economic equality. A major finding is that the while overall incomes are rising, the income gap between African American and white families is also rising.


Jim Wallis 11-08-2007

Pat Robertson's endorsement of Rudy Giuliani for president is simply astonishing. Robertson - the television preacher who founded the 700 Club and once ran for president himself - has made opposition to abortion and same sex marriage his political north star and has been a relentless champion of traditional marriage and family values.


Remember Robertson's merciless attacks on President Bill Clinton's lapses of sexual morality with Monica Lewinsky? Or his comments about how the 9/11 [...]

Jim Wallis 11-08-2007

At its board meeting last month, the National Association of Evangelicals formally named Leith Anderson as its president. Anderson is senior pastor of Wooddale Church in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, and has been serving as interim president of the NAE for the past year.


I've had the opportunity to spend some time with Leith Anderson. I believe he is the kind of leader most needed these days, [...]

Jim Wallis 10-11-2007

As the Religious Right has diminished in influence, many are searching for a new political agenda that doesn’t fit the standard right/left battles of American politics and is more consistent with their deeply held values. That new agenda would be good news for the majority of Americans who are alienated by the political [...]

Brian McLaren 10-10-2007

I remember about eight years ago when then presidential candidate George W. Bush repeatedly claimed that he would restore honor to the presidency, soiled as it had been by our previous president's infamous affair. I remember hoping he would succeed. But a new kind of shame has come to the office and to our nation as reports surface about our government's secret authorization of torture. We all share [...]

Alexis Salvatierra 9-01-2007

With comprehensive immigration reform off the congressional agenda, the New Sanctuary Movement steps into the breach.

Finding sanctuary in a Chicago storefront church.

Corbey Dukes 8-01-2007

Like many in the Christian community, I became greatly disillusioned with the Religious Right.

Jim Wallis 8-01-2007
The presidential forum clearly showed that faith is alive and well on both sides of the political aisle.
Sojourners hosted in June a first-of-its-kind, live special edition of CNN's "The Situation Room." Jim Wallis, CNN's Soledad O'Brien, and national religious leaders questioned leading Democratic presi
It's time to bring fairness back to the nation's airwaves.
Ed Spivey Jr. 8-01-2007
Only one man can beat Fred Thompson in the 2008 race.
Mary Nelson 6-01-2007

Ending Poverty in America is an insightful and readable book that contains concise chapters by experts who describe the complex and intertwined aspects of poverty in America—includin

The Editors 6-01-2007

The rightward drift of both Catholic and Protestant churches during the past 40 years has left an enormous number of Americans with the feeling that their church doesn't speak for them.

E.J. Dionne Jr. 4-01-2007

America's religious communities and the battle over government.

Ed Spivey Jr. 3-01-2007
Which sounds better, President Newt or President Mitt?
Kimberly Burge 2-01-2007
An uphill battle looms on the farm bill.