Jim Wallis
Rev. Jim Wallis is the inaugural holder of the Chair in Faith and Justice at the McCourt School of Public Policy and founding Director of the Georgetown University Center on Faith and Justice, which advocates for racial justice and building a multiracial democracy, eradicating systemic poverty and peacemaking in the United States and around the world. Wallis is the founder of Sojourners, a progressive Christian grassroots movement that advocates spirituality and social change, and served on President Obama’s White House Advisory Council on Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships. A public theologian, Wallis is a New York Times bestselling author of twelve books, including Christ in Crisis, America’s Original Sin, God’s Politics and The Great Awakening. In 2022, Washingtonian magazine named Wallis one of the 500 most influential people shaping policy in DC.
What people are saying about Jim Wallis:
““A spiritual health-check for the ailing, wheezing American body-politic. As Jim writes, ‘Don’t go right, don’t go left; go deeper.’””
““Jim Wallis offers a challenging and focusing return to the deep Gospel wellspring of our faith that has served us in many troubled times and places across the centuries. As one who struggles daily to have my faith inform my service, I’m grateful for this timely work.””
““Jim Wallis gives us a book that could be titled Following Jesus Again for the First Time. With prophetic fire, he makes the case that our political and religious crises arise from a failure of following the Jesus of the New Testament. Read this book and go deep.” ”
““For fifty years, Jim Wallis has worked to help Americans remember the politics of Jesus. His Christ in Crisis is a timely reminder of what it means to confess, ‘Jesus is Lord.’” ”
““Jim Wallis is faithful, relentless, and intrepid in voicing the prophetic reality of Gospel faith. He does not flinch at truth-telling, and he is not weary of hope-telling. ” Walter Brueggemann, author of The Prophetic Imagination”
““Jim Wallis reminds us that the core of Christianity is not a policy or a principle but a person—Jesus Christ. For anyone who wants to carefully ponder how to live as a person of faith, a loving neighbor, and a concerned citizen…Christ in Crisis is an indispensable guide.” ”
““The gospel of Jesus is urgently needed and gravely at risk, as many in and of the church have placed it in public derision through unconscionable alliances of power. Jim Wallis calls us anew to the gospel of Jesus that is always relevant for our personal and public lives.” ”
Recent Books by Jim Wallis:
