Tag: Jim Wallis
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Wallis and Brooks Debate: Does Capitalism Have a Soul? (Jim Wallis and Arthur Brooks)
Wheaton College: Wallis and Brooks Debate: Does Capitalism Have a Soul? The J. Dennis Hastert Center for Economics, Government and Public Policy invites the community to an informal debate on capitalism and morality at 7 p.m. Thursday, October 28. The debate features Jim Wallis of Sojourners magazine and Arthur Brooks, President of the American Enterprise…
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Jim Wallis’ Incivility?
Many of the websites and conversations I interact with frequently decry the incivility of the political Right and particularly the rhetoric of the Tea Party movement, including people like Glen "run from social justice churches" Beck and Sarah Palin. I'm not unsympathetic to their annoyance. I find it very hard to give sustained attention to…
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Budgets Are Not Moral Documents
God's Politics: Our Moral Audit of the Budget Four years ago, faced with a disastrous federal budget proposal, Sojourners coined a phase, "budgets are moral documents." That phrase has now entered the common lexicon, but it remains our fundamental principle. … … There are also specific changes in important areas such as tax policy, food…
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Why I’m not a Red Letter Christian
Are you a Red Letter Christian? "Red Letter" refers to versions of the Bible that put direct quotes from Jesus in red ink. Red Letter Christians believe that the ethics and teaching taught directly by Jesus should take priority over other agendas presented in the Bible. Tony Campolo and Jim Wallis are two figures who…
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Where Jim Wallis Stands
Christianity Today: Where Jim Wallis Stands The longtime activist on abortion, gay marriage, Iraq — and biblical orthodoxy. Jim Wallis wants you to know he's not a liberal. Yes, he's been a chief critic of the Religious Right since its inception, gave the Democratic weekly radio address after the 2006 midterm elections, and has been…
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Jim Wallis: Top Ten God’s Politics Epiphanies
From God's Politics Blog: Jim Wallis: Top Ten God's Politics Epiphanies When I first went out on the book tour for God’s Politics, I often got asked the standard media question, “Why did you write this book?” I answered, “Because the Right gets it wrong and the Left doesn’t get it!” It worked. Now reporters…
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God’s Politics: Why Jim Wallis Doesn’t Get it Either
[I am away at the General Assembly Council Meetings of the PCUSA with little time to write. So here is a rerun from December 14, 2005. I should also point out that by identifying myself as a theistic evolutionist in my post yesterday, I probably annoyed some of my conservative friends. This article is my…
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God’s Politics: Why Jim Wallis Doesn’t Get it Either
Jim Wallis published a book called God’s Politics: Why the Right Gets it Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It earlier this year. I loved the title. I bought it back in February but only got around to reading it a few weeks ago. I have followed the workings of Jim Wallis and Sojourners from…