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Wallis, Holmes, Rodriguez speaking at Dallas Justice Revival

Sojourners, the Washington D.C.-based magazine and ministry that weds evangelicalism and social action, is sponsoring a Justice Revival in Dallas. The event will be Nov. 10-12, at Dallas Market Hall. The just-announced main speakers are Jim Wallis, president of...


Jim Wallis of Sojourners is popular guy in Obama era

Wallis, whose Sojourners organization plans to put on a Justice Revival in Dallas later this year, is a Washington, D.C.-based evangelical whose politics tend to be moderate to liberal, but who sometimes finds common ground conservative evangelicals. Wallis also...


Faith-based groups offer support for Obama's budget

The Rev. Jim Wallis of Sojourners has joined other faith-based group leaders in commenting on the budget priorities of President Barack Obama:...


`An Orgy of Strange Bedfellows'

That's one description found in a Christianity Today account of conservative and not-so-conservative Christians coming together to push a poverty fighting agenda....


Jim Wallis comments on Richard Cizik's resignation from NAE

Sojourners leader Jim Wallis has released this statement about the resignation of Richard Cizik from leadership position at the National Association of Evangelicals:...


Bono, Jim Wallis, Elizabeth Edwards, Richard Rohr all write Obama

The God's Politics blog of Sojourner's magazine has letters to President-elect Obama from an interesting array of folks, including Bono and Elizabeth Edwards. Click here....


Interfaith leaders call for political conventions to focus on poverty

Jim Wallis and Richard Cizik are among those signing on to a letter asking that Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama use the presidential nominating conventions to talk - in primetime - about poverty. Here's a press release and...


Wallis comments on Obama and faith-based initiatives

Jim Wallis, the liberal/progressive evangelical author and speaker, has issued a statement on Barack Obama's vision for faith-based initiatives:...


Wallis rips Dobson's ripping of Obama

Jim Wallis is an evangelical leader and author who's pretty far removed on the political spectrum from James Dobson, a stalwart of the religious right. And Wallis is unhappy with Dobson's claim that Barack Obama distorts the Bible. Here's...


'How Would God Vote?'

That's the headline on a Beliefnet debate-in-writing between David Klinghoffer and Jim Wallis....

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