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God's Politics with Jim Wallis

Don’t Go Left, Don’t Go Right, Go Deeper.

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Before America, There Was Constantine

Jim Wallis called for a post-American Christianity in 1971. I think we have to go back further.

Matthew Taylor Exposes the Fallacies of Christian Dominionism in the War on Iran

On August 26, 2026, Al-Jazeera reported Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi asserts the Strait of Hormuz will not reopen to U.S.

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The Ethical Authority of the Church

From a Wounded Moral Sensitivity to a Wounded Church

Rediscovering Justice: Jim Wallis at Chautauqua – Faith, Action, and the Moral Compass for Our Times

In the most recent Jim Wallis newsletter, God's Politics, Annie Selak, visiting scholar at the Center on Faith and Justice and author of The Wounded Church: Tending to the Harm within the Church, examines The Ethical Authority of the Church by casting sexism, racism, and clericalism as self-inflicted wounds of the church.

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Then and Now, the Work Remains

Jim Simpson reflects on the enduring relevance of the article that began Jim Wallis's public ministry

A Just, Equitable, and Democratic Future

Jim Simpson, writing in the Jim Wallis newsletter God's Politics, draws clear parallels from the genesis of Jim’s activism chronicled in the 1971 essay Post-American Christianity to the threat we face today under the Trump regime:

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Beyond Patriarchy

Dr. Kathleen Bonnette reflects on how a post-American Christianity must move beyond patriarchy and recover the transformative power of relationship, compassion, and shared humanity.

Faithful Peacemaking in Turbulent Times: Jim Wallis with Jennifer Walker Thomas

While Rev.

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Revisiting “Post-American Christianity”

Written in 1971 for the first issue of The Post-American, this essay launches a four-part series exploring what its vision of faith and public life can teach us today.

Faithful Economic Organizing Cuts Off Funding of ICE Detention Center Construction

Reverend John Edgerton of Old South Church in Boston explains the campaign to divest from Citizens Bank and resist the presence of ICE in local communities.

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Faith Forward Democrats

After decades of watching Democrats dodge the God question, I think they finally have an answer.

Sen. Tim Kaine on Faith-Forward Politics, Democracy, and Standing Up to Authoritarianism

Senator Tim Kaine discusses what it means to be a faith-forward Democrat in a political moment when more Democrats are openly reclaiming religion as part of their public witness.

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A Faithful Call to Abolish ICE

The time for merely criticizing ICE has passed. People of faith have witnessed an agency that terrorizes families and violates the God-given dignity of our neighbors.

Pastor Mike McBride on Freedom Summer Revivals, Black Church Power, and Justice

Pastor Mike McBride discusses the meaning and mission of the Freedom Summer Revivals: a movement designed to awaken faith, strengthen Black churches, and organize moral courage for the struggle for voting rights, justice, and liberation.

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