Guest Speaker: Jim Wallis

Wallis

Jim Wallis

President and Executive Director, Sojourners

Rev. Jim Wallis is a best-selling author, public theologian, speaker, preacher, and international commentator on religion and public life, faith and politics. He will be the featured speaker during UDM's Celebrate Spirit! event, Thursday, Sept. 18, 2008 at 11:30 a.m. in Calihan Hall on the McNichols Campus.  Wallis will give an additional presentation the same evening at 7:30 p.m., also in Calihan Hall.  The evening presentation is free and open to the public.

Wallis's latest book is The Great Awakening: Reviving Faith & Politics in a Post-Religious Right America (HarperOne, 2008). His previous book, God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It (Harper Collins, 2005), was on the New York Times bestseller list for four months.

Wallis is president and chief executive officer of Sojourners, where he is editor-in-chief of Sojourners magazine, whose combined print and electronic media have a readership of more than 250,000 people.

Wallis speaks at more than 200 events a year and his columns appear in major newspapers, including The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and both Time and Newsweek online.

He regularly appears on radio and television, including shows like Meet the Press, the Daily Show with Jon Stewart, the O'Reilly Factor, and is a frequent guest on the news programs of CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, Fox, and National Public Radio.

Wallis has taught at Harvard's Divinity School and Kennedy School of Government on "Faith, Politics, and Society." He has written eight books, including: Faith Works, The Soul of Politics, Who Speaks for God?, and The Call to Conversion.

Raised in the Detroit area, Wallis attended MSU and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Illinois.

Wallis lives in inner-city Washington, D.C. with his wife, Joy Carroll, one of the first women ordained in the Church of England and author of Beneath the Cassock: The Real-life Vicar of Dibley; and their sons, Luke, 9, and Jack, 4. He is also a Little League baseball coach.

Visit Jim Wallis and Sojourners at their web site sojo.net and read his daily blog at godspolitics.com .

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