[Vanders9]

He did apologise, to be fair.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Thanks for these insights. I really feel bad about Jim Wallis. He could have been an honest man in the mold of (I think) Ron Sider, who --- whatever his left-wing politics --- DOES engage with the "other side" on a respectful level, and DOES modify his ideas on the basis of other people's perspectives and new infusions of facts.

Sider --- who started off not knowing bloop about economics, and took some harmful and ill-informed positions because of that --- still strikes me as fair and sane, and able to assimilate new information. Wallis --- sigh --- at some point, just -- stopped -- listening. Does he still pray? Probably. What a mystery.