Posted on 02/11/2005 11:24:18 PM PST by kcvl
Jim Wallis is a Christian leader for social change. He is a speaker, author, activist, and international commentator on ethics and public life. Wallis was a founder of Sojourners - Christians for justice and peace - more than 30 years ago and continues to serve as the editor of Sojourners magazine, covering faith, politics and culture. In 1995, Wallis was instrumental in forming Call to Renewal, a national federation of churches, denominations, and faith-based organizations from across the theological and political spectrum working to overcome poverty.
They are going to have to try the same tactic the have taken with Thomas, Powell, and Rice. Say "we're for Christians, just not THOSE Christians."
Now I'm wondering where Sojourners get its money...
This guy was a total KOOK. Here is a simple litmus test: you cannot be for the cultural filth that is gay marraige and still call your self "pro family". This KOOK tried to do that last night.
I thought he sounded like the serpent.
"something put a bug up his wazoo"
I'm just guessing, but perhaps it is a sizeable "consulting" fee from the dem "teach us how to lie about religion" faction that has given rise to overestimating his worth.
Jesse Jackson vs. Truth
Al Sharpton vs. Truth
Jim Wallis...
Hannity asked him "Are you pro-life" and the slime sort of smirked and said "Yes, I'm pro-life." You could just tell he meant he was pro-life AND pro-abortion. I wished Hannity would have drilled him on that but he moved on.
Whoaa...that brings back some memories....During the Sick Slick Monica days....I heard that line, "The Bible says, you can't judge him" from my wife's uncle. I proceeded to tell them to read a bit further...as you have pointed out. They never would respond to me after that....just placed me on ignore. The crazy thing about it is...my wife's aunt is a very liberal C.S. minister. And it always just floored me....that they could be so blind to what the bible plainly says...about judging.
Oh well.....
FRegards,
Uh, whatever happened to the seperation of Church and State?
Some call the election a warning. "You can't have everybody who goes to church vote Republican; you just can't," Al From, founder of the Democratic Leadership Council, said last week at a forum on the election. Religious traditionalists including Dr. Richard Land, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the conservative Southern Baptist Convention, and Jim Wallis of the liberal evangelical group Sojourners say Democratic officials are calling them for advice on reaching conservative Christians.
Isn't that, like, a Bozo no-no?
Yes. The Dems are presenting a new poke, but they are still trying to sell the same old pig.
They can talk the talk, but they can't walk the walk.
Illustrative of who is really influencing who.
Wallis is there to be the recognizable, reputable mouthpiece. The message is thinly disguised leftist gruel.
Matthew 24:11-12
And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
This is simply marketing.
This man is not even a Christian, much less an advisor on the faith. He also advised Bill Clinton, as I recall, and we know how well that turned out. If people in the red states can't smell this pile of BS, they deserve Hellery as president.
Wallis speaks at more than 200 events a year and his columns appear in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and other major newspapers. His most recent book is God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It (Harper Collins, 2005). He offers regular commentary and analysis for radio and television and teaches a course at Harvard University on "Faith, Politics, and Society."
In the last several years, Wallis has led more than 250 town meetings, bringing together pastors, civic and business leaders, and elected officials in the cause of social justice and moral politics. Under Wallis' leadership, Call to Renewal has hosted annual Roundtables on Poverty for national religious leaders and successful National Summits. Endorsed initially by a broad cross-section of Christian leaders, Call To Renewal's Covenant and Campaign to Overcome Poverty now has tens of thousands of supporters around the United States.
Jim Wallis was raised in a Midwest evangelical family. As a teenager, his questioning of the racial segregation in his church and community led him to the black churches and neighborhoods of inner-city Detroit. He spent his student years involved in the civil rights and antiwar movements. While at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Illinois, Jim and several other students started a small magazine and community with a Christian commitment to social justice which has now grown into Sojourners whose combined print and electronic media have a readership of more than 100,000 people.
Please clarify your message.
In the first place, one need not be a Christian to worship God. In the second place, as a liberal, I know the difference between church and state and don't try to mix the two, let alone meld them.
Hyperbole is great fun but it surely makes a lot of smoke.
Anyone have a bio site for this guy? I can't seem to find one that has much personal data about him.
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