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The Great Awakening - Jim Wallis in Austin May 13 & 14

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A group of us in Austin will be hosting activist and author Jim Wallis on May 13 & 14 here in Austin.   President and executive director of Sojourners, Jim is a public theologian, preacher, speaker, a blogger at God's Politics and an international commentator on ethics and public life.  Bono has said about Jim: 

I had always been a skeptic of the church of personal peace and prosperity ... of righteous people standing in a holy huddle while the world rages outside the stained glass. But I’ve learned that there are many people of the cloth who are also in the world, and from debt cancellation to the fight against AIDS and for human rights, they are on the march. Jim Wallis isn’t just part of this movement—he’s out front carrying a bullhorn.

Jim will join us to talk about the Great Awakening that is taking place all over our country and all around the globe.   Jim has written about this in his new book in which he discusses:

the new broader and deeper faith agenda and shows how a new spiritual "revival" could spark real social and political change. Already, in the early primaries the clear victor is "change," revealing the deep hunger in America for a new direction in politics, which many on both sides of the spectrum believe to be badly broken. All the candidates are now competing to convince voters that they are the best change agents.

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Jim gives a sense of what he writes about in his book and what we discuss in May:

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