Reverend Jim Wallis, best-selling author and social commentator will be visiting our shores from 28 September – 01 October.

He will speak at series of events around the country hosted by the Centre for Theology and Public Issues at the University of Otago, the Salvation Army and World Vision.

Details about Jim Wallis’ speaking engagements will follow shortly…

Biography:
Reverend Jim Wallis is a bestselling author, public theologian, and social commentator. He is one of President Barack Obama’s key advisers on religious and ethical issues.

Wallis is President and CEO of Sojourners; where he is editor-in-chief of Sojourners magazine. His columns appear in major newspapers and he frequently commentates on major radio and television networks such as CNN, MSNBC, Fox and National Public Radio.

Jim Wallis recently served on the White House Advisory Council on Faith-based and Neighbourhood Partnerships and lectured on the subject at Harvard University.

He has written ten books including New York Times best sellers Rediscovering Values: On Wall Street, Main Street, and Your Street — A Moral Compass for the New Economy and God’s Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It.

Raised in a Midwest evangelical family, Wallis questioned racial segregation in his church and community. He spent his student years involved in the civil rights and anti-war movements.

While at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Illinois, Jim and several other students started a small magazine and community with a Christian commitment to social justice, which has now grown into the national faith-based organisation Sojourners. In 1979, Time magazine named Wallis one of the “50 Faces for America’s Future.”

Jim lives in 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 young sons, Luke and Jack. He is a Little League baseball coach.