Faith Equals Action by Mark Moring and Tim Stafford Christianity Today blog 2-04-2010
At Kennedy, Taylor found Jim Wallis, founder of the progressive Christian organization Sojourners, who was teaching as an adjunct professor. Wallis's class "connected the dots on so many things I cared about," says Taylor. "So much of why I care about social justice is because of my faith." Newly invigorated, Taylor helped found Global Justice, a student movement that works for HIV/AIDS relief.
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Jim Wallis' values and Wall Street by Martin E. Marty Spero Forum 2-04-2010
This week I will cite one of them, Jim Wallis’s Sojourners, which some of us have been reading for two-score years. Jim and a colleague dropped by the other for day a chat, in the week when he’d made a repeat visit to TV's 'The Daily Show with Jon Stewart', and we made up a bit for lost time.
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Rev. Wallis on the 10! Show by Jim Wallis NBC Philadelphia 2-03-2010 Reprints for
02-03-2010:
The Newsroom.
Rev. Wallis talks to Lori Wilson on the 10! Show.
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Religious leaders worry that Obama's faith council is for show by Michelle Boorstein and William Wan The Washington Post 2-03-2010 Reprints for
02-03-2010:
Worldwide Religious News.
Others, including Jim Wallis, leader of the progressive faith movement Sojourners, who has served on the White House council, said he hopes to see the president engage with the faith community on a much deeper level on domestic and foreign policy. "I want him to listen to faith groups as much as he listens to people on Wall Street," Wallis said. "I want him to listen to faith groups as much as military leaders on Afghanistan."
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Book event at Jimmy Carter Presidential Library & Museum by Tony Clark Access Atlanta 2-03-2010
Meet bestselling author and public theologian Jim Wallis at the Carter Presidential Library this Friday, February 5th at 7pm. Wallis is president and CEO of Sojourners and is an international commentator on religion, public life, faith, and politics. His new book Rediscovering Values: On Wall Street,Main Street, and Your Street provides a moral compass for these new economic times.
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Rev. Wallis on Good Day Philadelphia by Jim Wallis My FOX Philly 2-03-2010
World-renowned speaker, best-selling author and preacher Jim Wallis addresses our country’s current economic situation.
The Reverend believes that we all must adapt to the new economy while embracing our core values. He told Mike, “Let’s get back to older virtues”
His new book, Rediscovering Values: On Wall Street, Main Street and your Street.” is in bookstores now.
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Jim Wallis on Values and Morals by Martin E. Marty Divinity School at the University of Chicago 2-01-2010
Wallis has always been puzzled by the way some Evangelicals specialize in quoting the six biblical verses which refer or may refer to homosexuality, but consider it out of bounds for believers to notice the six hundred or six thousand that reference Mammon, money, riches-and-poverty. Like the ancient prophets, he names names: not Edom and Moab, Assyria and Babylon, but Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, and Citigroup, which, bailed out with the public’s money, had rewarded themselves at the time he wrote with $8.66 billion (that’s eight thousand six hundred and sixty million) in bonuses, while, Wallis adds, “the average bank teller at Bank of America makes only $10.75 an hour – just over $22,000 a year.”
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Friends Select School book event Joseph Fox Bookshop 2-01-2010
This is a FREE event; but reservations are required. Please RSVP with Jan Burns at janb@friends-select.org, or call 215.561.5900 ex. 129 if you plan to attend. Walk-ins will be admitted the night of the event if seating is available. For more information about the event and Friends Select School, please click here
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The Echo of Davos: Some tendencies for 2010 by Sebastien MAILLARD La Croix 1-31-2010
In short, to establish a communication with what the American theologian, Jim Wallis, call the “generation of the inches muscular”.
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Davos questions the religions on the values in the economy by Sebastien MAILLARD La Croix 1-31-2010
Elsewhere, the theologian close to the Obama administration, Jim Wallis, dedicated his new book Rediscovering Values: On Wall Street, Main Street, and Your Street.
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Holmes: Time to withdraw from Bank of America? by Rick Holmes The MetroWest Daily News 1-31-2010
The Rev. Jim Wallis, a liberal evangelical, author and activist, is talking up the idea. "When I recently told a few friends that my wife, Joy, and I had decided to close our little account at Bank of America and move our money to a local bank that has behaved more responsibly, I was amazed at the response," he recently wrote in The Washington Post. "Religious leaders and pastors from around the country called to say that they, too, were ready to take their money out of the big banks that have shown such shameful morality and instead invest according to their values, by putting money into more local and community-based institutions."
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How Can This Crisis Change Us? by Neil Mcintosh Wall Street Journal blog 1-30-2010
Each day, we’ll ask Davos participants for their projections on the world economy - how deep the recession will get, how long it will last and where growth eventually comes from.
Those are the wrong questions, says Jim Wallis, a several-time Davos attendee who runs Sojourners USA, a Christian social justice network that publishes a magazine of the same name.
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The State of the Union is Frustrating by Tobin Grant Christianity Today blog 1-29-2010
Not all advocacy groups took issue with the State of the Union, though. Jim Wallis, president of Sojourners, agreed with the President's focus on job creation and called for a continued push for health care reform.
Wallis, along with several other evangelicals, even signed a Faith in Public Life letter asking the President to press forward with health care reform. Other signatories included author and speaker Tony Campolo, pastor Joel Hunter, pastor Brian McLaren, and Ron Sider, president of Evangelicals for Social Action.
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20th Century's Biggest Change in Evangelicalism Beliefnet 1-29-2010
What are the biggest changes you see in evangelicalism in the last century?
Notable evangelicals aside, of course. I don't know the history of all of this, and I know the Methodists have been much more balanced than many others, but when I came of age the voices that were rattling the evangelical cage about developing a social conscience included Jim Wallis and Ronald Sider and Tony Campolo. There are others, and I would say the Moral Majority and Religious Right must be included in the development of a social conscience, but these come to mind for me.
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Holy BlackBerry! Obama Finds Ways to Keep the Faith During First Year in Office by Devin Dwyer ABCNews.com 1-29-2010
"Barack Obama is a Christian. He's always been clear and unapologetic about that, and he's comfortable with his own faith," Rev. Jim Wallis, an Obama friend and spiritual adviser, said. "But I think the president, particularly a president, needs the kind of pastoral care or spiritual counsel with people who don't have a political agenda. And it's hard for a president to get that."
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Heaven Help Him by Lisa Miller Newsweek 1-28-2010 Reprints for
01-30-2010:
Urban Christian News.
I reached Jim Wallis, the progressive evangelical leader whose new book is called Rediscovering Values, as he was leaving for Davos. Wallis has been close to the president, advising him early on about whether to run and exchanging e-mails with him amid the Jeremiah Wright turmoil. "We need a leader," Wallis told me, "to call not for incremental change but transformational politics. The president could do that. I think he still has it in him, but the American people don't perceive it."
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Rethinking Values in the Post-Crisis World by Jim Wallis World Economic Forum 1-27-2010
Rethinking Values in the Post-Crisis World: Yvan Allaire, Thomas H. Glocer, Yasuchika Hasegawa, Hartmut Ostrowski, Jim Wallis, Muhammad Yunus, James H. Quigley
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Interview with Rob Wilson-Black in Davos by Tom Alexander University of Chicago blog 1-27-2010
What brings you to Davos?
Our CEO at Sojourners, Jim Wallis, is Vice-Chair of the WEF Global Agenda Council on Faith and author of a new book, "Rediscovering Values: On Wall Street, Main Street and Your Street...A Moral Compass for the New Economy." So this is an occasion for a Davos reception and European book launch conversation.
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Religious Leaders Urge Obama to Show 'Active Leadership' in Health-Care Debate by Suzanne Perry The Chronicle of Philanthropy 1-27-2010
“We implore you to make it plain to all Americans that the decisions of Congress have moral consequences,” it says. “Letting this life-line lapse would be a failure of historic proportions.”
The letter, sent as the president prepares to deliver his State of the Union address tonight, was signed by representatives of groups including Catholics in Alliance for the Public Good, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Hindu American Seva Charities, Jewish Council for Public Affairs, National Council of Churches USA, and Sojourners. The signers include more than a third of the White House Office for Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships
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