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3 weeks ago | 
sightmagazine.com.au | Jim Wallis |David Adams
JIM WALLIS, in an article first published on Religion News Service, says if the political realm will not stand up to the autocratic pretensions of the current US President, it falls to people of faith to take non-violent action…United StatesVia RNSAuthoritarianism is not only a political issue, it’s a theological one. The human capacity for evil is too great to allow individuals to have too much unchecked political power.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
sightmagazine.com.au | Jim Wallis |David Adams
JIM WALLIS, director of Georgetown University’s Center on Faith and Justice in the US, says, in an article first published on Religion News Service, that it’s better to be spiritually prepared for a new political season than to make the usual resolutions…United StatesRNSThis year, the first of an American autocracy, is not one to make typical resolutions.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
religionnews.com | Jim Wallis
(RNS) — This year, the first of an American autocracy, is not one to make typical resolutions. The incoming president’s first term showed him to be a wannabe autocrat, but there were some guardrails in place — even from some of the people around him. This time there are no internal guardrails. It remains to be seen how resilient to an autocrat American society will be. Will Congress rein him in? Civil society? Churches? And how far will the autocrat want to go? Only time will tell.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
sightmagazine.com.au | Jim Wallis |David Adams
JIM WALLIS says, in an article first published on Religion News Service, that as a sociologist, writer and preacher, he touched legions of people in his classrooms and millions in countless venues around the world…United StatesRNSTony Campolo, who died on Tuesday, was known as a great preacher but was, above all, an evangelist who proclaimed “good news to the poor,” just as Jesus did when he launched his mission at Nazareth.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
religionnews.com | Jim Wallis
(RNS) — Tony Campolo, who died Tuesday (Nov. 19), was known as a great preacher but was, above all, an evangelist who proclaimed “good news to the poor,” just as Jesus did when he launched his mission at Nazareth. That phrase, “good news,” is a translation of the Gospel of Luke’s original Greek word, evangel, from which we get the words “evangelist” and “evangelical.” Tony was an evangelical, through and through, who believed that genuine evangelicals needed to bring good news to the poor. Period.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
religionnews.com | Jim Wallis
(RNS) — I had a recent conversation with Marshall Ganz, an old friend, veteran organizer and internationally renowned teacher of organizing at Harvard’s Kennedy School. He said something that struck me deeply in the midst of this stressful presidential campaign: “Fear shuts down part of your brain.” After I repeated this at an event in Ohio days later, a doctor spoke to me and confirmed this from his own medical experience.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
sightmagazine.com.au | Jim Wallis |David Adams
JIM WALLIS, in an article first published on Religion News Service, says Pannell was a preacher who was an antidote to the spirit of fear and hate in our world and politics today…United StatesRNSBill Pannell, who died on 11th October at 95-years-old, touched the lives of countless legions of others – including me when I was a teenage boy in Detroit, Michigan, where he was a pastor and leader in the Black church of my hometown.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
religionnews.com | Jack Jenkins |Richa Karmarkar |Aleja Hertzler- McCain |Jim Wallis
(RNS) — Each week Religion News Service presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s photo gallery includes celebrtions of Yom Kippur, Indigenous Peoples' Day and more. A member of the Grupo Coatlicue blows on a conch shell during a performance of a traditional Aztec dance, an agricultural prayer ceremony in motion, during an Indigenous Peoples' Day event, Monday, Oct. 14, 2024, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
religionnews.com | Jim Wallis
(RNS) — Bill Pannell, who died on Friday (Oct. 11) at 95 years old, touched the lives of countless legions of others — including me when I was a teenage boy in Detroit, Michigan, where he was a pastor and leader in the Black church of my hometown. Only three weeks before he died, a new documentary about his life premiered at Fuller Theological Seminary. I strongly recommend this remarkable story of a Black evangelical Christian to anyone who cares about the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
sojo.net | Jim Wallis
This article originally appeared on God's Politics. Bill Pannell died on Friday, October 11, at 95 years old. Bill Pannell touched the lives of countless legions of others, including me, when I was a teenage boy in Detroit, Mich., where he was a pastor and leader in the Black church of my hometown. Only three weeks before he died a new documentary about Bill Pannell’s life premiered at Fuller Theological Seminary.
