God's Politics - Annotated by Jim Wallis (Paperback)

About the Book

A leading voice of Christians in this country offers a prophetic indictment against America's pursuit of individual spiritualities to the exclusion of any social responsibility for the common good, as well as the lack of political options for believers who want to link their personal ethics to social justice.

From the Back Cover

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 require banishing moral and religious values from the public square. God's Politics offers a vision for how to convert spiritual values into real social change and has started a grassroots movement to hold our political leaders accountable by incorporating our deepest convictions about war, poverty, racism, abortion, capital punishment, and other moral issues into our nation's public life. Who can change the political wind? Only we can.

Review Quotes

How far should we go to understand each other's points of view? Maybe the distance grace covered on the cross. - Bono, lead singer of U2
Jim Wallis is an inspiration to me- for his witness of faith and his engagement with politics. - Bill Moyers
Jim Wallis is compelling, provocative, and inspirational, with faith that can move mountains and can certainly move people and communities. - Archbishop Desmond Tutu
"Reads like a primer for Howard Dean and George W. Bush. It requires left and right to rethink their assumptions." - Dallas Morning News
"An important political book and an important spiritual book." - Washington Post
"[God's Politics] is a reminder that Martin Luther King may have had a bible in one hand, but he had the Constitution in the other. - New York Times Book Review
Wallis at his usual passionate and brilliant self: he will move you to examine your conscience and search your soul. - E.J. Dionne, author of Stand Up Fight Back and Why Americans Hate Politics
Jim Wallis is the major prophetic evangelical Christian voice in the country. - Cornel West, author of Race Matters and Democracy Matters
"Wallis provides a refreshing alternative voice to the polarizing rhetoric currently popular." - Library Journal