A Paper Trail from Soros to Wallis? (Sojourners)

Acton Institute ^ | 8/17/2010 | Jonathan Witt

[markomalley]

In a recent article in World magazine, Acton senior fellow Marvin Olasky urged evangelical minister Jim Wallis to drop the pretense of being post-partisan. Olasky, World magazine’s editor-in-chief, went on to assert that (1) Wallis’s organization, Sojourners, received money from the foundation of secular-leftist George Soros, and that (2) Wallis had lent the Sojourners mailing list to the Obama campaign.

In an interview here, Wallis appears to deny these charges. But now former Acton research fellow Jay Richards has followed up with some additional findings in a new piece at NRO. The findings strongly support Olasky’s claims, and make it all the more unclear why Wallis would respond to them by denying them and calling Olasky a professional liar.

Richards has been keeping tabs on Wallis for a while now. In an October 2005 review of God’s Politics, Richards shows how Wallis sits squarely on the left and has even capitulated to the secular left on key social issues. The book review also examines Wallis’s questionable biblical exegesis as well as some of the economic fallacies that drive much of Wallis’s political thinking.

Wallis may mean well, but the big-government policies he advocates have been a wrecking ball to the very communities he seeks to help. An Acton/Coldwater video short examines why the left’s approach to poverty alleviation has done so much harm. It’s called How not to Help the Poor.

[cripplecreek]

Wallis may mean well

All marxists are good people, we just need dialogue and a greater understanding and tolerance of them. LOL

[Matchett-PI]

bttt

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 ...
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MAINLY, THOUGH, what Wallis is up to these days is building his “movement for spiritual and social change” and arguing for optimism over cynicism. Previous theological agonies dispelled, Wallis fills his book with chatty anecdotes from his speaking tours, his time teaching at Harvard, his appearances on TV and talk radio, his travels at home and abroad.

He closes the book with the self-congratulatory (and possibility heretical) declaration: “we are the ones we have been waiting for.”

Excerpted from the 2005 Weekly Standard article:

God’s Democrat
From the April 11, 2005 issue: The church of Jim Wallis.
by Katherine Mangu-Ward
04/11/2005, Volume 010, Issue 28
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/005/441oqlsg.asp?pg=1

[Abigail Adams]

“we are the ones we have been waiting for.”

Didn’t Obozo say this too in one of his campaign speeches?

[Matchett-PI]

"“we are the ones we have been waiting for.” Didn’t Obozo say this too in one of his campaign speeches?"

Yep! He was parroting Wallis.

"We are the ones we've been waiting for," Barack Obama proclaimed many times during the campaign. ..." ~ Jonah Goldberg

Is Barack Obama the Messiah?

"... a light will shine through that window, a beam of light will come down upon you, you will experience an epiphany ... and you will suddenly realize that you must go to the polls and vote for Obama" - Barack Obama Lebanon, New Hampshire. January 7, 2008.

Obama is our "Light-Worker" our "messiah"

You don't believe?? Then add your name to this list of "heretics and unbelievers". (You must scroll down beneath the list of the "converted")

67 posted on Friday, June 12, 2009 1:13:27 PM by Matchett-PI

[Matchett-PI]

Remember this picture of Soros with B.O.?

http://obamamessiah.blogspot.com/

[LiteKeeper]

PLEASE! Wallis is NOT an evangelical!!!!!

[EternalVigilance]

Shoot, there’s a clear paper trail of Soros money to the 2008 Republican nominee.

Soros and Teresa Heinz Kerry kept McCain’s hacks alive when everyone was writing him off because his campaign had no money. Hah.

[rogue yam]

ping