Jim Wallis

Jim Wallis

President, Sojourners/Call to Renewal

Jim Wallis is president and executive director of Sojourners/Call to Renewal, progressive Christian movements founded to fight poverty and promote social justice. He also is the author of the best-selling God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It (2005). The “On Faith” panelist was raised in a Midwest evangelical family. As a teenager, his questioning of the racial segregation in his church and community led him to the black churches and neighborhoods of inner-city Detroit. He spent his student years involved in the civil rights and antiwar movements. While at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Illinois, Wallis and several other students started a small magazine and community with a Christian commitment to social justice that has grown into a national faith-based organization and network. In 1979, Time magazine named Wallis one of the “50 Faces for America’s Future.” Wallis also is editor-in-chief of Sojourners magazine and speaks at more than 200 events each year. Some of his other books include Faith Works; The Soul of Politics: A Practical and Prophetic Vision for Change; Who Speaks for God? A New Politics of Compassion, Community, and Civility; and Call to Conversion. Close.

Jim Wallis

President, Sojourners/Call to Renewal

Jim Wallis is president and executive director of Sojourners/Call to Renewal, progressive Christian movements founded to fight poverty and promote social justice. He also is the author of the best-selling God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It (2005). more »

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Evangelicals: A Tipping Point on the Environment?

Concern over global warming is strong among young evangelicals who have made environmental stewardship a mainstream issue among their peers.

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Bob:

You apologize:

"The religious right tried to prevent this from happening but they failed and, in so doing, lost control of the evangelical political agenda. Key establishment groups like the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE), are now firmly committed to “creation care” and to the issue of global warming in particular."

You are a shmuck.

Foreskin, which serves no purpose known to man (or woman now that science proves what men always knew, a shmuck's propensity to injure women and serve no purpose whatsoever).

Thank you for your wisdom and insight.

Bob

Tonio:

Dumb question - why is the religious right hyperfocused on issues like gay marriage, as Wallis notes? Any issue that relates in some way with sex seems to drive them bonkers. The perfect illustration of this is the HPV vaccine. The religious right opposes a potentially lifesaving medical measure on the grounds that it might encourage young women to have sex.

Paganplace:

So you keep spamming, yet, this would not seem to be what *science* is saying. Look, even evangelicals figured out they're total maroons for not stopping calling most scientists in the world 'commies' for pointing out the facts.

You got a macro set for that bit of *koff* erudite, umm *koff* pious, *koff* well-intentioned,* Umm, ...misguided commentary? Might be time to change it. The Party will no longer reward your 'loyalty.'

Get with the program. Soon they'll be accusing 'liberals' and non-Christians of 'attacking' your longtime traditions of stalwart environmental stewardship.

Wouldn't want to miss out on that. Would you?

Scientist:

There is NOT evidence to state that global warming is caused by humans or industrialized nations. Period.

Hard_NOx:

Dear Mr. Wallace, please correct me if I am wrong but it seems to be a real danger in that evangelical faithful can be "bent" to evil ends quite easily. There is a website www.godhatesfags.com which serves as testimony to what I am saying. When we first met I was the Frozenone, then DryIce, and now Hard_NOx. The more I deal with the World, the colder I get.
God Bless you and yours Sir. Stay warm in God's Love. amen

Paganplace:

Hey, we're supposed to 'know them by their works,' ....about time we got some work out of em. ;)

Schuyler DuQuesne:

So far, so good. I'm not concerned with your motives, as long as your efforts coincide with my own concerns. You'll have more success and have it sooner if you can unwrap the flag from Jesus' shoulders and free all that Jeezusness to do some real good.

Paganplace:

Ok, Roll up your sleeves, guys. And save your pennies, certain corporate and 'Faith based' government money might be going bye-bye, but here's where the action is. There's much more than consumer guilt about it. :)

Ba'al:

I hope you succeed with this.

Cal:

Yes, by all means stop pestering gay people and start poking around issues that are actually important like the environment. Keep your noses out of other people's bedrooms.


Signed,

A perfectly secure, straight (not narrow), married man who is not at all threatened by my gay neighbors, Barry Golwater's grandson and Dick Cheney's daughter.

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