Jim Wallis is a speaker, author, activist and international commentator on ethics and public life. He was a founder of Sojourners, the Christian campaigning organisation for peace and justice, and continues to edit its magazine, read by 120,000 people. His most recent book God's Politics, was said by Gordon Brown to be 'Powerful reading for anyone interested in social change'.
Wallis speaks at more than 200 events a year and his columns appear in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and other major newspapers. His most recent book is God�s Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn�t Get It (Harper Collins, 2005). He offers regular commentary and analysis for radio and television and teaches a course at Harvard University on "Faith, Politics, and Society." In the last several years, Wallis has led more than 250 town meetings, bringing together pastors, civic and business leaders, and elected officials in the cause of social justice and moral politics. Under Wallis' leadership, Call to Renewal has hosted annual Roundtables on Poverty for national religious leaders and successful National Summits. Endorsed initially by a broad cross-section of Christian leaders, Call To Renewal's Covenant and Campaign to Overcome Poverty now has tens of thousands of supporters around the United States. Jim Wallis was raised in a Midwest evangelical family. As a teenager, his questioning of the racial segregation in his church and community led him to the black churches and neighborhoods of inner-city Detroit. He spent his student years involved in the civil rights and antiwar movements. While at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Illinois, Jim and several other students started a small magazine and community with a Christian commitment to social justice which has now grown into Sojourners whose combined print and electronic media have a readership of more than 100,000 people. In 1979, Time magazine named Wallis one of the "50 Faces for America's Future." His other books include Faith Works (2000), The Soul of Politics: A Practical and Prophetic Vision for Change (1994), Who Speaks for God? A New Politics of Compassion, Community, and Civility (1996), and Call to Conversion (1981, 2005). Jim lives in inner-city Washington, D.C. with his wife, Joy, and their sons, Luke and Jack.
