Jim Wallis
Jim Wallis ( born June 4, 1948 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American Christian preacher and author.
He graduated from Michigan State University and attended the Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Illinois, where he already gathered like-minded people around. Was created in 1971 from the Christian community Sojourners, which he founded and since then forwards. He also leads the 1995 " Sojourners " emerged profit organization "Call to Renewal", which works with various religious people, organizations and churches to eliminate poverty. Valais is a friend of the Franciscan and author Richard Rohr, with whom he worked mainly in the peace movement of the 1970s. Since the inauguration of President George W. Bush, he distinguished himself as a critic of its theological argumentation. He writes regular columns for the online magazine of Sojourners, his writings are also published more often in influential media and he holds a course for politics and religion at Harvard University. Today he lives with his wife Joy and their sons Luke and Jack in downtown Washington, DC.
Works
- Conversion to life. Succession in the nuclear age. ISBN 3870672080 ( first edition: . Call to Conversion, 1981)
- The New Radical. 1983, ISBN 0-856-48594-2. ( Autobiography )
- Peacemaker. 1989, ISBN 3-922-81909-5. (Editor)
- The soul of politics. Claudius 1995, ISBN 3-532-62182-7. (Original edition: The Soul of Politics, 1994. )
- Who Speaks for God? 1996
- Faith Works. 2000
- Who, if not us. Quarrelsome visions for a just policy. 1st edition. Brendow, Moers 2007, ISBN 3-86506-167-2 ( 493 pages, translated by Martin Rometsch ). Original English edition: God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Does not Get It HarperCollins, 2005
- The Great Awakening. Reviving Faith and Politics in a Post- Religious Right America, HarperOne, 2008, ISBN 978-0-060-55829-1