.gif) April
20, 2008 Guest – Jim Wallis
Program: A Revival In the Works
Jim Wallis is a
bestselling author, public theologian, speaker, preacher, and
international commentator on religion and public life, faith and
politics. His latest book is The Great Awakening: Reviving
Faith & Politics in a Post–Religious Right America (HarperOne, 2008).
His previous book, God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and
the Left Doesn't Get It (Harper Collins, 2005), was on the New
York Times bestseller list for 4 months. He is President and Chief
Executive Officer of Sojourners; where he is editor-in-chief of
Sojourners magazine, whose combined print and electronic media have
a readership of more than 250,000 people. Wallis speaks at more than 200
events a year and his columns appear in major newspapers, including
The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and
both Time and Newsweek online. 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
inner-city 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 (9) and
Jack (4). 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 . |
