Jim Wallis
Thursday, May 2nd 2013  7:30pm
Berkeley, CA

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What Religion Forgets and Politics Hasn't Learned About Serving the Common Good. Can the common good be reclaimed? Jim Wallis thinks so. What better time to undertake this urgent task than after the presidential election dust settles? “The common good is about so much more than partisan politics,” Wallis writes. “It grows out of our personal and family lives, our vocational callings, the mission and witness of our congregations, the moral power of social movements, and the independent integrity of prophetic religious leadership in our public life.” Wallis looks at the best big ideas from both conservative and liberal thought: personal responsibility and social responsibility, respectively, both of which are essential to common good. “Don’t go right, don’t go left, go deeper,” Wallis says. In “Inspiring the Common Good” he makes the case that Christianity involves more than just the destiny of the soul, it involves the way we live in the world. With “Practices for the Common Good” Wallis explores civility, redeeming democracy, the harmful role of money in politics, economic trust, and healthy households. “My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side.” – Abraham Lincoln Jim Wallis is president and CEO of Sojourners and editor in chief of Sojourners magazine. He is a bestselling author, public theologian, national preacher, social activist, and international commentator on ethics and public life. Wallis has written ten books, including the *New York Times* bestsellers God’s* *Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It* and *The Great Awakening*.

Location:
1st Congregational Church
2345 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA

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