Jim Wallis
Author; Editor-in-Chief, Sojourners
Jim Wallis is an evangelical Christian reverend known as a writer and activist. He founded Sojourners Magazine in 1971 and currently serves as its Editor-in-Chief. His most recent book is The Great Awakening: Reviving Faith and Politics in a Post-Religious Right America (2008). He teaches a course on religion and politics at Harvard University. In 2000, he received the Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience award. Born in 1948, Wallis attended Michigan State University and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.
The importance of balancing reflection and activism.
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Gandhi and Mandela
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Start with the income gap.
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A political and moral failure
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The answer to bad religion is not secularism, but better religion.
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Wallis wishes we were more literal about what Jesus said.
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The religious right was not founded by religious leaders, Wallis says.
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Wallis believes that he is a 19th century evangelical.
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Wallis, on the first time he heard about Dr. Martin Luther King.
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