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A leading voice of Christians in this country offers a prophetic indictment against America's pursuit of individual spiritualities to the exclusion of any social responsibility for the common good, as well as the lack of political options for believers who want to link their personal ethics to social justice.

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Rather than joining the throngs who are asking, "When will this economic crisis be over?, Wallis says the right question to ask is "How will this crisis change us?" He maintains we need a new normal, and this economic crisis is an invitation to discover what that means.

Apartheid: 30, 000 detainees between 1986 and 1989, 10, 000 of them under the age of 16 . . . children tortured and shot in the streets . . . razor wire, rifles, whips, and fire-bombs...freezing jail cells and worm-infested cornmeal rations...despair, terror, rage. The day-to-day agony of South Africa. Is this tortured land a parable of the rest of the world, where issues and choices are thrown into stark relief? Through the words of South Afr...

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Introduces a company of modern witnesses--saints, peacemakers, and martyrs who have embodied the gospel challenge our time: From Dietrich Bonhoeffer, martyr to the Nazis to Thomas Merton, the Trappist monk and prophet of peace: to Martin Luther King, Jr. and many others, from around the world.

America has long had a history of race problems, with the foundation of the country tied to the near extermination of one race, and the enslavement of another. Here, Wallis offers a call to action to overcome racism, urging white Christians to build a new bridge across the race divide.

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Bestselling author and leading Christian activist Jim Wallis shows how Christians can work together to overcome the destructive and pervasive nature of racism in American society.

Wallis argues that politics has failed to solve the biggest issues of our time: poverty, global warming, environmental degradation, terrorism, racism, human trafficking, health, education, respect for human life and crises in families and parenting. In this book, he sets out how he believes we must go deeper to the basic moral choices and challenges beneath political debates.

When we start with the wrong question, no matter how good an answer we get, it won't give us the results we want. Rather than joining the throngs who are asking, "When will this economic crisis be over? "Jim Wallis says the right question to ask is "How will this crisis change us? "The worst thing we can do now, Wallis tells us, is to go back to normal. Normal is what got us into this situation. We need a new normal, and this economic crisis i...

The six-session small group Bible study, Justice for the Poor, from Jim Wallis and Sojourners explains how to connect biblical faith with contemporary responses to poverty, both in your neighborhood and around the world.

The Soul of Politics responds to signs of cultural breakdown and political impasse with a resounding call to reintegrate politics and spirituality. Wallis draws on his own experience in the urban ghettos of Washington, D.C., to show why traditional liberal and conservative options that emphasize either social justice or personal values fall short of solutions.