Last year, Americans spent $450 billion on Christmas. Clean water for the whole world, including every poor person on the planet would cost about $20 billion. Let's just call that what it is: A material blasphemy of the Christmas season. — Jim Wallis Copy Share Image
If you are asking the wrong question, it doesn't matter how good the answer is, you aren't going to get where you want to… — Jim Wallis Copy Share Image
The failure of political leaders to help uplift the poor will be judged a moral failure. — Jim Wallis Copy Share Image
Spirituality becomes a commodity to be bought and sold. So spirituality has to be disciplined by social justice. — Jim Wallis Copy Share Image
Faith can cut in so many ways. If you're penitent and not triumphal, it can move us to repentance and accountability and help us reach for something higher than ourselves. That can be a powerful thing, a thing that moves us beyond politics as usual, like Martin Luther King did. But when it's designed to certify our righteousness - that… — Jim Wallis Copy Share
More than just a moral issue, hope is a spiritual and even religious choice. Hope is not a feeling; it is a decision. And the decision for hope is based on what you believe at the deepest levels - what your most basic convictions are about the world and what the future holds - all based on your faith. You… — Jim Wallis Copy Share
Pat Robertson is an embarrassment to the church and a danger to American politics, .. It's time for Christian leaders of all stripes to… — Jim Wallis Copy Share Image
To dig our heels in and say no to a present madness is a good thing, but to walk a new path and say… — Jim Wallis Copy Share Image
“Religion is often used as a sword to divide, rather than as a balm to heal.” — Jim Wallis Copy Share Image
