Jim Wallis: 14 books
The (Un)Common Good
How the Gospel Brings Hope to a World Divided
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Jim Wallis thinks our life together can be better. In this timely and provocative book, he shows us how to reclaim Jesus's ancient and compelling vision of the common good--a vision that impacts and inspires not only our politics but also our personal lives, families, churches, neighborhoods, and...
Christ in Crisis
Why We Need to Reclaim Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2019
Writing in response to our current “constitutional crisis,” New York Times bestselling author and Christian activist Jim Wallis urges America to return to the tenets of Jesus once again as the means to save us from the polarizing bitterness and anger of our tribal nation.
In Christ in Crisis...
Rediscovering Values
On Wall Street, Main Street, and Your Street
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
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...
Faith Works
Lessons from the Life of an Activist Preacher
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2000
Today more than ever, many people are hungry for spirituality and community. But the most powerful and meaningful spirituality shows itself through action. Jim Wallis is the charismatic preacher, activist, and leader of Call to Renewal, a dynamic new movement that is uniting politics and spirituality...
America's Original Sin
Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
America's problem with race has deep roots, with the country's foundation tied to the near extermination of one race of people and the enslavement of another. Racism is truly our nation's original sin.
"It's time we right this unacceptable wrong," says bestselling author and leading...
Living God's Politics
A Guide to Putting Your Faith into Action
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
After fifteen weeks on the New York Times Bestseller list, God's Politics not only changed the conversation about faith and politics in this country, it began a movement. All across the country, wherever Jim Wallis spoke, people were frustrated by tax cuts and budgets that widened the gap between...
God's Economics (Ebook Shorts)
Principles for Fixing Our Financial Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
The collapse of financial systems and the resulting economic crisis have caused a growing distrust of the way things operate. Why has the global economy become so unfair, unsustainable, and unstable, with the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer? A conversation about how the market should...
by Jim Wallis
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
There is a war going on in our nation's political discourse. Polarizing labels--left/right, Republican/Democrat, young/old, rich/poor, traditional/progressive--define and divide us. And in the process we've lost a vision for the common good.
Jim Wallis believes our life together can be better....
God's Politics
Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
New York Times bestseller God's Politics struck a chord with Americans disenchanted with how the Right had co-opted all talk about integrating religious values into our politics, and with the Left, who were mute on the subject. Jim Wallis argues that America's separation of church and state does not...
by Jim Wallis
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Who was Jesus? Why did he come? Some people think it was to save them from their sins, so their spiritual focus is personal salvation. Others appreciate Jesus's teachings but see little connection between the wise teacher of old and how they live life here and now.
Both groups have lost the...
by Jim Wallis
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
The headlines are almost unfathomable: More than one thousand Bangladesh garment-industry workers killed when their building collapsed. Over one hundred workers killed in a poultry-factory fire in China. Harsh conditions and a rash of suicides at a Taiwanese company producing cell phones. These tragedies...
The Call to Conversion
Why Faith Is Always Personal but Never Private
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Put Your Faith into Action
A leading voice at the crossroads of faith and politics offers a prophetic appeal for our times: faced with a growing gap between the rich and poor, bombarded by national security alerts that ratchet up our stress levels, taxed by a government that spends billions...
The Great Awakening
Seven Ways to Change the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Now in paperback: the bestselling author of God’s Politics revives our hope in a politics that reflects our highest common values and offers a roadmap for solving our biggest social problems.
Getting More Out of Restorative Practice in Schools
Practical Approaches to Improve School Wellbeing and Strengthen Community Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
Restorative practice (RP) has been successfully implemented in schools for decades and is primarily associated with improving behaviour and relationships, by changing the culture of problem solving in the school. However, it has huge untapped potential to support initiatives in other areas, and this...