The Call to Conversion - by Jim Wallis (Paperback)

About the Book

The author of the "New York Times" bestseller "God's Politics" says the only hope for the nation's soul is a conversion to the values Jesus preached and a government policy that reflects those values.

Book Synopsis

Put Your Faith into Action

A leading voice at the crossroads of faith and politics offers a prophetic appeal for our times: faced with a growing gap between the rich and poor, bombarded by national security alerts that ratchet up our stress levels, taxed by a government that spends billions of dollars on war -- where do we find hope? In this revised and updated edition of his classic, Jim Wallis insightfully critiques contemporary culture and politics, inspiring us with stories to convert our way of thinking and point to a solution to our current social and political dilemmas.

From the Back Cover

A leading voice at the crossroads of faith and politics offers a prophetic appeal for our times: with a growing gap between the rich and the poor, with our fears surrounding national security, with the enormous costs of war, where do we find hope? In this revised and updated edition of his classic book, Wallis provides an insightful critique of our culture and politics, offering inspiring stories that show a way out of our social and political dilemma. He elaborates on the concept of conversion, surveying both the biblical and historical meanings as well as the experience itself. He shows us how to reassess the significance of conversion in today's world. By gaining a profound understanding, Wallis argues, we will come to see how economic injustice and the threat of war can serve as the tests for measuring the depth of both our personal and our shared spirit.
This new edition is updated throughout, with a new introduction, as well as extensively rewritten chapters on the most recent thinking and statistics on poverty, and on contemporary warfare with the current threat of terrorism and the proliferation of nuclear capabilities of third-world nations.

Review Quotes

"A book too important to ignore....Wallis convincingly presents Jesus as the original anti-poverty prophet who recognizes that despair leads to a host of other problems....You won't read it in one go because you have to soak it in, think about it, and maybe even be, well, converted by it." -- YouthWorker Journal


"A book too important to ignore?.Wallis convincingly presents Jesus as the original anti-poverty prophet who recognizes that despair leads to a host of other problems?.You won't read it in one go because you have to soak it in, think about it, and maybe even be, well, converted by it." -- YouthWorker Journal