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Jim Wallis is a commentator on ethics and public life and a spokesperson for faith-based initiatives to overcome poverty. He is the editor of Sojourners magazine, covering faith, politics and culture for thirty years. He is also the convener of Call to Renewal, a national federation of churches, denominations and faith based organizations working to overcome poverty and revitalize American politics. A frequent speaker, he travels to more than 200 events a year to preach, teach and organize. He is a prolific writer whose columns appear in the Washington Post, LA Times, MSNBC, and Beliefnet. His most recent book is God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It (Harper Collins, 2005). [This book has received wide acclaim and has brought Wallis in direct contact with over 85,000 people across the country while speaking about the book, and in contact with millions through media appearances, including unconventional outlets like the Jon Stewart's Daily Show.] He offers regular commentary and analysis for radio and television and teaches a course at Harvard University on "Faith, Politics, and Society." He regularly offers commentary and analysis for radio and television and teaches a course at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government on "Faith, Politics and Society." Jim lives in inner city Washington DC with his wife Joy and their sons Luke and Jack. In the last several years, Rev. 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. The Call to Renewal network that he convenes brings together people from African-American, Evangelical, Catholic, Pentecostal, and mainline Protestant churches to work on poverty. Under his leadership, Call to Renewal has convened five National Roundtables on Churches and Poverty for national religious leaders and held five successful National Summits. In February 2000, sixty national Christian leaders endorsed Call to Renewal’s "Covenant and Ten Year Campaign to Overcome Poverty." Jim Wallis was raised in a Midwest evangelical family. As a teenager, he questioned the racial segregation in his church and community, which led him to the black churches and neighborhoods of inner-city Detroit. He spent his student years involved in the civil rights movement and protesting the Vietnam War. While at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Illinois, Jim and several other students started a magazine and community with a Christian commitment to social justice. In 1975, Sojourners moved to the Columbia Heights neighborhood of Washington, DC. They later founded the Sojourners Neighborhood Center, which serves the children of the community through tutoring and mentoring programs, a summer Freedom School, and parents’ support activities. Time magazine named him one of the "50 Faces for America’s Future." His books include Faith Works: Lessons from the Life of an Activist Preacher (2000), The Soul of Politics (1994) and Who Speaks for God? A New Politics of Compassion, Community, and Civility (1996). |
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