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Jim Wallis is a bestselling author, public theologian, speaker, preacher, and international commentator on religion, public life, faith, and politics. He is president and CEO of Sojourners, where he is editor-in-chief of Sojourners magazine. He regularly appears on radio and television, including shows like Meet the Press, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The O'Reilly Factor, and is a frequent guest on the news programs of CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, Fox, and National Public Radio. He has taught at Harvard's Divinity School and Kennedy School of Government on faith, politics, and society. He has written eight books, including: Faith Works, The Soul of Politics, Who Speaks for God? and The Call to Conversion.

Jim Wallis 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 at Michigan State University. While at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Illinois, Jim and several other students started a small magazine and community with a Christian commitment to social justice which has now grown into a national faith-based organization. In 1979, Time magazine named Wallis one of the "50 Faces for America's Future."

Jim lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife, Joy Carroll, one of the first women ordained in the Church of England and author of Beneath the Cassock: The Real-life Vicar of Dibley; and their sons, Luke and Jack. He is a Little League baseball coach.

Visit Jim Wallis and Sojourners at their website www.Sojo.net and read his daily blog at www.GodsPolitics.com .

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On the Issues

Jim Wallis provides regular commentary on the God's Politics Blog, his weekly SojoMail newsletter, and in Sojourners magazine.

God's Politics Blog

• Cut the Deficit--Cut Military Spending 02-04-2010
• Obama's Call for Civility Amid Prayer Breakfast Controversy 02-04-2010
• Video: Jim Wallis on Philly's NBC Morning Show 02-04-2010
• Video: Jim Wallis on Philly's Fox Morning Show 02-03-2010
• Justice for Vieques 02-01-2010

• Cut the Deficit--Cut Military Spending 02.04.10
• Creating Change in the Midst of Crisis: Re-thinking Our Values 01.28.10
• Changing the Script with Jon Stewart 01.21.10
• Haiti: God Is Suffering With Those Who Are Suffering 01.14.10
• The Power of Questions 01.07.10

Sojourners Magazine Articles

• A Bad Morality Play    February 2010
  
• Asking the Right Questions    February 2010
  
• A Revival for Justice    January 2010
  
• Super Size My Conscience    January 2010
  
• Doing Justice    December 2009
  

Sojourners magazine is a voice and vision for social change. Founded in 1971 by Jim Wallis, Sojourners provides an alternative perspective on faith, politics, and culture. Ecumenical and progressive, Sojourners lifts up the biblical connection between social justice and spiritual renewal.

On the Road

Come hear Jim speak in the coming months on behalf of Sojourners:

• Feb. 11, 2010 Minneapolis MN
• Feb. 17, 2010 Denver CO
• Feb. 18, 2010 Denver CO
• Feb. 22, 2010 Stanford CA
• Feb. 23, 2010 Seattle WA
• Feb. 24, 2010 Beaverton OR
• Feb. 25, 2010 Los Angeles CA
• Feb. 25, 2010 Pasadena CA

Press

Jim Wallis regularly offers commentary and analysis for radio and television, and writes guest columns for national newspapers. Recent media clips include:

• Faith Equals Action  
  
• Jim Wallis' values and Wall Street  
  
• Marilyn Russell interviews Rev. Wallis  
  
• Rev. Wallis on the 10! Show  
  
• Religious leaders worry that Obama's faith council is for show  
  

Other Books by Jim Wallis

The Great Awakening: Seven Ways to Change the World
What would it take to change the world? What would it take to end extreme poverty, to address climate change, to create peace? For too long, a narrow religious agenda has been used like a wedge to divide people. But a wider and deeper vision of faith and values is emerging. It's a renewal of faith – a great awakening – that combines personal faith with social justice. A new social movement is on the rise. The Great Awakening is upon us.

God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It
God's Politics offers a clarion call to make both our religious communities and our government more accountable to key values of the prophetic religious tradition. Our biblical faith and religious traditions simply do not allow us as a nation to continue to ignore the poor and marginalized, deny racial justice, tolerate the ravages of war, or turn away from the human rights of those made in the image of God. These are the values of love and justice, reconciliation, and community that Jesus taught and that are at the core of what many of us believe, Christian or not.

Faith Works: How Faith-based Organizations are Changing Lives, Neighborhoods, and America
"In Faith Works, Jim Wallis has woven together a detailed road map for those interested in loosening the chains of social injustice. This book is a powerful resource for change!" Millard Fuller, Founder and President, Habitat for Humanity International

The Soul of Politics: Beyond 'Religious Right' and 'Secular Left'
Jim Wallis responds to signs of cultural breakdown and political impasse with a resounding and highly moving call to reintegrate politics and spirituality - a call for a new political morality combining social justice with personal responsibility.

The Call to Conversion: Recovering the Gospel for These Times
Jim Wallis explores Jesus' call to God's community and away from worldly standards, the churches' betrayal of the call, and the possibilities for a new response.









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