Jim Wallis: Want to change America? Then change Huntsville, change Alabama

Do you want the priorities to change in Washington? Then change Huntsville, says Jim Wallis, the minister-prophet who founded Sojourners magazine and organization and stirs up holy trouble around the U.S. and abroad as he relentless calls for public policies that match religious teachings that emphasize the care of the poor, the "worthless," the oppressed and the stranger.

 

"When states and cities really want to work on poverty or climate change or immigration, then things will change," Wallis said. "Washington will be the last place where the notion of 'common good' will come up."

 

Wallis' morning keynote opened the Exploring Faith Intersections conference being sponsored by the members of the Interfaith Mission Service that is being held at Trinity United Methodist Church in Huntsville, Ala., today, Nov. 3, 2014. He also spoke at 11:30 a.m., in a talk that included a look at what the upheavals in Ferguson, Mo., can signal in the United States as Americans begin to tackle the deep issues of race.