September 22, 2016, 3:00pm
Phelps-Stokes Auditorium
Sponsored by the Willis D. Weatherford, Jr. Campus Christian Center (CCC)
Jim Wallis is a New York Times bestselling author, public theologian, speaker, and international commentator on ethics and public life. He served on the White House Advisory Council on Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships and was former vice chair of and currently serves on the Global Agenda Council on Values of the World Economic Forum. He is president and founder of Sojourners, where he is also editor-in-chief of Sojourners magazine, which has a combined print and electronic media readership of more than a quarter million people.
Jim's most recent book's:
- America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America, was released in January 2016.
- On God’s Side: What Religion Forgets and Politics Hasn’t Learned About Serving the Common Good
- Rediscovering Values: A Guide for Economic and Moral Recovery
- The Great Awakening:Reviving Faith & Politics in a Post-Religious Right America
- God’s Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It.
Check out some of our amazing books by Jim Wallis at the convocation display in Hutchins Library!
Faith Works by Jim Wallis
Call Number: 261.832 W214f 2000
Publication Date: 2000-03-28
Today more than ever, many people are hungry for spirituality and community. But the most powerful and meaningful spirituality shows itself through action. Jim Wallis is the charismatic preacher, activist, and leader of Call to Renewal, a dynamic new movement that is uniting politics and spirituality to ignite social change and overcome poverty. In his timely, exciting new book, he shows us how we can enrich our own lives by serving our communities. Wallis believes that the making of the modern Christian, Muslim, or Jew is through action.
God's Politics by Jim Wallis
Call Number: 261.709 W214g 2005
Publication Date: 2005-01-11
Conservative evangelicals have hugged their Bibles, worn their flag pins, and self-righteously attempted to co-opt any discussion of religion and politics. Liberals are embarrassed to discuss their religious beliefs in public and attempt to avoid the subject altogether. Is there an appropriate way Christians and other morally concerned people can express their faith and values in the public debate while still supporting the constitutional separation of church and state? We've become great at pursuing our individual spiritualities, but in the process may have lost sight of the power of religious belief for motivating social reform.
Who Speaks for God? by Jim Wallis
Call Number: 261.709 W214w
Publication Date: 1996-09-01
A prominent evangelical pastor offers a provocative political and socialmanifesto for all Americans who yearn for more spirit-centered politics but arefed up with the Christian Coalition.Most people across the political and religious spectrum agree that our countryis facing a moral and spiritual crisis, and that restoring values to ourpublic policies and discourse has become a critical issue. But while theReligious Right have taken it upon themselves to represent Christian values, their ideas are actually counter both to the teachings of the scriptures andthe historical tradition of evangelical activism, according to Jim Wallis.
