Jim Wallis has long ploughed a
lonely furrow in the U.S...that
of a radical evangelical, as committed
to liberation and social justice
as he is to an evangelical understanding
of the Christian story...He has, since
the 1970s exemplified God's bias to the
oppressed, not least through the Sojourners
community and then the Sojourners magazine.
Where many self-proclaimed American
evangelicals have aligned themselves with
the xenophobic 'tea party' Wallis has been
a close friend to Barak Obama...
Check out the Sojourner's blog that I've
highlighted here on 'Believing in the City'
Here Wallis offers a sad and reflective
'obituary' to the debacle of the Iraq war
and the catch 22 in which his friend Barak
Obama found himself....
http://blog.sojo.net/2010/09/01/the-war-in-iraq-at-what-cost/
