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  • Sojourning Socialists (IBD Series: The Audacity Of Socialism)

    09/09/2008 7:46:48 PM PDT · by Kaslin · 7 replies · 275+ views
    IBDEditorials ^ | September 9, 2008
    Election '08: Barack Obama has joined forces with a white socialist he calls a "good friend" — the Rev. Jim Wallis, founder of "Sojourners." He too believes in "liberation theology," sans the black nationalism. In fact, Wallis is the white version of Jeremiah Wright, sans the black rage.In addition to publishing "Sojourners" magazine, Wallis runs Call to Renewal — a network of liberal churches and activist groups "committed to ending poverty and racism." Wright once joined Wallis at the U.S. Capitol in an anti-poverty "preach-in" sponsored by Call to Renewal. Wallis and his Washington-based operation have essentially replaced Wright and...
  • Dobson to Attack Obama Tuesday for Distorting the Bible

    06/23/2008 7:57:18 PM PDT · by kingattax · 78 replies · 163+ views
    ABC News ^ | 6-23-08 | Jake Tapper
    (also) Having a "Fruitcake" Interpretation of the ConstitutionDr. James Dobson of Focus on the Family -- who has stayed unusually quiet in this election cycle likely due to his loathing of presumptive GOP presidential nominee Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. -- will tomorrow attack Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, on Tuesday for a speech the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee delivered in 2006 to the liberal Christian group Call to Renewal. The AP was given an advance copy of Dobson's 18-minute radio segment, which has already been taped, and will air Tuesday. In it, Dobson hammers Obama's views of religion, and says the...
  • JIM WALLIS: Faith Succeeding Where Politics Has Failed

    05/28/2008 7:38:55 AM PDT · by Terriergal · 36 replies · 170+ views
    In an era of broken politics and bad religion, faith is making a serious comeback as a force for social change, says Christian author and speaker Jim Wallis.Mon, May. 26, 2008 Posted: 08:58:18 AM EST LONDON – In an era of broken politics and bad religion, faith is making a serious comeback as a force for social change, says Christian author and speaker Jim Wallis. Speaking at the U.K. launch of his new book, “Seven Ways to Change the World,” in central London Sunday night, Wallis said Christianity is reviving and that it is time for Christians to answer the...
  • Prophet for Political Profit Reverend of the Left.

    11/13/2007 11:31:06 PM PST · by DeweyCA · 20 replies · 125+ views
    National Review Online ^ | 11-13-07 | Peter Wehner
    I believe that Dick Cheney is a liar; that Donald Rumsfeld is also a liar; and that George W. Bush was, and is, clueless about how to be the president of the United States. ...They have shamed our beloved nation in the world by this war and the shameful way they have fought it. Almost 4,000 young Americans are dead because of the lies of this administration, tens of thousands more wounded and maimed for life, hundreds of thousands of Iraqis also dead, and 400 billion dollars wasted—because of their lies, incompetence, and corruption. But I don’t favor impeachment, as...
  • Iran's Ahmadinejad talks to US Christians

    02/25/2007 4:02:36 PM PST · by stan_sipple · 33 replies · 888+ views
    Breitbart.com ^ | 2-25-2007 | Breitbart.com
    President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday said Iran bore no hatred towards the United States as he held talks with American Christians in a rare official contact with visitors from Tehran's arch enemy. State television showed Ahmadinejad meeting with a dozen American representatives from various Christian orders who are in Iran for a week-long visit to promote peace and dialogue between the foes. "The Iranian nation does not have any feeling of hatred and opposition towards the American people and we believe that all people are respectful and given the common grounds people have, they could achieve peace and justice," Ahmadinejad...
  • Rev. Wallis: Dems, GOP must cooperate

    12/02/2006 10:12:22 AM PST · by NormsRevenge · 19 replies · 477+ views
    AP on Yahoo ^ | 12/2/06 | AP
    WASHINGTON - Democrats and Republicans should work together to find new ways to end poverty, curb government corruption and strengthen families, Rev. Jim Wallis said Saturday. "Answering the call to lift people out of poverty will require spiritual commitment and bipartisan political leadership," Wallis, the head of the liberal Sojourners/Call to Renewal, an evangelical social justice movement, said in the weekly Democratic radio address. "Real solutions must transcend partisan politics," he said. "It is time to find common ground by moving to higher ground." President Bush has signaled his readiness to consider Democratic priorities such as a federal minimum-wage increase...
  • Liberal evangelicals begin campaign

    09/18/2006 1:46:59 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 33 replies · 737+ views
    AP on Yahoo ^ | 9/18/06 | Philip Elliott - ap
    WASHINGTON - Liberal evangelicals, weary of a Republican-centric image, launched a campaign Monday to promote Christian values beyond the issues of abortion and same-sex marriage. Red Letter Christians, a project of Sojurners/Call to Renewal, announced plans to establish a grass-roots network of 7,000 moderate and progressive clergy members. "A debate on moral issues should be central to American politics, but how should we define religious values?" said Jim Wallis, an activist and executive director of the Christian ministry, which also publishes the liberal Sojourners Magazine. The project's name comes from the color of some Bible's type, with words directly attributed...
  • 'Speeches come and go, but policies continue' (Jim Wallis barf alert)

    02/01/2006 5:22:57 PM PST · by Terriergal · 34 replies · 708+ views
    www.sojo.net ^ | 02/01/06 | Jim Wallis
    'Speeches come and go, but policies continue' by Jim Wallis The president's State of the Union address sounded like it was cut and pasted from so many old speeches. There was nothing new last night. Easily agreed-to rhetoric about freedom, growth, opportunity, and civility hides the facts: 1. George Bush's foreign policy, and the way he fights his war on terrorism, is making our families less safe and secure, not more. His war in Iraq was based on false pretenses and has utterly failed. Yet, the president doesn't seem to have the capacity for self-examination, or the moral sense to...
  • Professors oppose Bush 'theology' -

    10/10/2004 9:34:59 AM PDT · by UnklGene · 71 replies · 5,601+ views
    Pasadena Star News ^ | October 9, 2004 | Marshall Allen
    Professors oppose Bush `theology' - By Marshall Allen , Staff Writer PASADENA -- A group of Fuller Theological Seminary professors, saying they are responding to a "grave moral crisis' in America, are signing a statement opposing President Bush's alleged convergence of God, church and nation and what they call his "theology of war.' Glen Stassen, Fuller's Louis B. Smedes professor of Christian ethics, said Bush's religious rhetoric confuses the cause of Christianity with that of a nation at war. For instance, in Bush's 2002 State of the Union address the president labeled Iran, Iraq and North Korea the "axis of...
  • The Message Thing

    08/04/2005 5:26:17 AM PDT · by rhombus · 19 replies · 630+ views
    The NY Times ^ | Jim Wallis
    SINCE the 2004 election, there has been much soul-searching and hand-wringing, especially among Democrats, about how to "frame" political messages. The loss to George W. Bush was painful enough, but the Republicans' post-election claims of mandate, and their triumphal promises to relegate the Democrats to permanent minority status, left political liberals in a state of panic. So the minority party has been searching, some would say desperately, for the right "narrative": the best story line, metaphors, even magic words to bring back electoral success. The operative term among Democratic politicians and strategists has become "framing." How to tell the story...
  • Chicago Tribune: Liberals Not Liberals, But Progressives

    12/16/2005 5:09:40 AM PST · by Mike Bates · 14 replies · 371+ views
    NewsBusters.org ^ | 12/15/2005 | NewsBusters
    Today's Chicago Tribune story on a group protesting Republican Congressional efforts to curb social spending identifies Rev. Jim Wallis as a "Christian activist." The article reports he is a leader of "a Christian social justice group" and speaks of "Wallis and other progressive religious leaders." It would be more accurate to describe Wallis as an activist liberal Democrat. He's long been a force within the Democratic party and, as noted in the Weekly Standard, has a " 35-year history of effectively pacifist, anti-capitalist, pro-socialist positions. With the exception of abortion and family values, the political issues that animate him today...
  • More Than 100 Arrested in Capitol Protest [House Republican budget plan's cuts in social programs.]

    12/14/2005 1:59:48 PM PST · by Sub-Driver · 12 replies · 621+ views
    More Than 100 Arrested in Capitol Protest By ELIZABETH WHITE, Associated Press Writer 26 minutes ago U.S. Capitol Police arrested 115 religious activists who were protesting a House Republican budget plan's cuts in social programs when they refused to clear the entrance to a congressional office building Wednesday. "These are political choices being made that are hurting low-income people," said Jim Wallis, the event's organizer and founder of the Christian ministry group Sojourners. "Don't make them the brunt of your deficit reduction and fiscal responsibility." Wallis called the House budget plan, which would produce $50 billion in savings over five...
  • Jim Wallis on "Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It"

    02/23/2005 10:18:18 AM PST · by SmithL · 14 replies · 495+ views
    San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 2/23/5 | David Ian Miller
    With U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton extending an olive branch to abortion opponents in a recent speech and other congressional Democrats peppering their language with faith-based phrases, it's clear that some members of the party are trying to find their religious voices. Some might call that political pandering. But Jim Wallis, a left-wing evangelical Christian who believes Democrats need to affirm the role of faith in shaping public policy, sees these developments differently. He argues that conservative Republicans have taken control of the discussion about religion and morality in this country and have used hot-button issues like abortion and same-sex marriage...
  • Democrats Turn to Leader of Religious Left

    01/17/2005 12:20:04 AM PST · by nickcarraway · 76 replies · 3,986+ views
    New York Times ^ | January 17, 2005 | DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
    Democrats, reeling from the Republicans' success at courting churchgoers, are focusing new attention on a religious and political anomaly: Jim Wallis, one of the few prominent left-leaning leaders among evangelical Protestants. At the start of the Congressional session, Senate Democrats invited Mr. Wallis to address their members at a private session to discuss issues. A group of about 15 House Democrats invited him to a breakfast discussion about dispelling their party's secular image. And NBC News has enlisted him to appear as a guest during its inauguration coverage opposite Dr. James C. Dobson, one of the most prominent evangelical conservatives....
  • God's Democrat (The church of Jim Wallis)

    04/04/2005 9:20:31 PM PDT · by RWR8189 · 27 replies · 3,084+ views
    The Weekly Standard ^ | April 11, 2005 | Katherine Mangu-Ward
    IT TAKES A CERTAIN AMOUNT of chutzpah to write a book called God's Politics. But you have only to read a few pages of Jim Wallis's new bestseller by that name to discover that it isn't actually about the politics of an all-knowing, all-seeing, all-powerful deity at all. Instead, it's 384 pages of Jim's politics, and Jim (with a couple of notable exceptions) is a pretty average, down-the-line leftist who, by the way, believes in God.Wallis is a hot property lately on the talk-show, book-tour circuit and, more important, in Democratic party backrooms. Still smarting from their rebuff by "values...
  • Is Jim Wallis an Evangelical Christian? (Vanity)

    02/15/2005 1:43:21 PM PST · by Juan Medén · 71 replies · 2,300+ views
    Curiosity | 2/15/2005 | Juan Medén
    The media have been trotting out Jim Wallis as their alternative for values-oriented voters. He is consistently described as an evangelical Christian but many of his views (pro-abortion, pro-homosexuality, pro-Islam) are clearly not Christian.
  • Civil Disobedience for a Moral Budget (BARF ALERT)

    12/24/2005 10:11:06 AM PST · by Terriergal · 18 replies · 755+ views
    Sojourners.org ^ | 12-14-05 | Sojourners
    Civil Disobedience for a Moral Budget »See more photos and read testimonies of participants See video of the event in the following formats »WindowsMedia»RealPlayer»QuickTime »iTunes download 115 religious leaders were arrested in front of the Cannon House Office Building while kneeling in prayer to protest the immoral budget and tax agenda which slashes spending on the poor to finance tax breaks for the rich. Led by Jim Wallis of Call to Renewal, national faith leaders, clergy and faith-based providers of services to the poor held a press conference. Following the press conference the leaders kneeled in prayer blocking the entrance...
  • Bogus Betrayal? [New York Times (mis)identifies livid lib as disillusioned Bush supporter]

    08/28/2003 9:40:41 AM PDT · by Stultis · 75 replies · 637+ views
    <p>In a front-page story Tuesday on the President and his compassionate conservative agenda, the New York Times said that, "some religious supporters of Mr. Bush say they feel betrayed by promises he made as a candidate and now, they maintain, he has broken as president." The story relies heavily on quotes from one Reverend Jim Wallis, whom the Times describes as an, "early supporter" of the President. Wallis tells the Times Mr. Bush has, "failed the test." He is the only person in the whole story identified as a Bush supporter. But Wallis is, in fact, an ardent Democrat, who did not vote for Mr. Bush, and who edits a liberal religious magazine called Sojourners, which has consistently criticized the President and his administration. None of this is mentioned in the Times story.</p>