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Jim Wallis, who helped found the Sojourners
Christian ministry and edits Sojourners magazine, said in
his King Week address that he's met many people turned off by the
rhetoric of the so-called "religious right" but also left wanting
by progressives who appear to reject faith. Faith and religious leaders
have been at the center of all the major social movements of the
past century, he said, helping bring about change that once seemed
unimaginable. "Faith is for the big stuff—the things we
think can't be changed," he said. "It is faith that makes the impossible
into the inevitable."
PHOTO CREDIT: ANN BORDEN
Wallis
calls for 'new dialogue' on faith
As it celebrates
the 77th anniversary of the birth of Martin Luther King Jr.,
the nation desperately needs a new national dialogue on the role
of faith in the public sphere and the true meaning of moral values,
said writer, minister and activist Jim Wallis to a packed Glenn
Auditorium on
Tuesday, Jan. 7.
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