
Christ in Crisis
Why We Need to Reclaim Jesus
Author: Jim Wallis
Narrator: Charles Constant
Unabridged: 8 hr 28 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperOne
Published: 09/24/2019

Author: Jim Wallis
Narrator: Charles Constant
Unabridged: 8 hr 28 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperOne
Published: 09/24/2019
Jim Wallis is the author of the New York Times bestseller God's Politics, which electrified Americans disenchanted with how the Right had co-opted all talk about integrating religious values into our politics by offering an alternative voice. Wallis is a leading figure at the crossroads of religion and politics in America today, the author of eight books, and the founder of Sojourners, a global faith and justice network. He is a public theologian, an internationally renowned speaker and preacher, a faith-based activist, husband, and father to two young boys, and a Little League baseball coach.
As a long term Jim Wallis reader I started this book, chosen by our church book group, with a certain level of frustration seeing it initially as a reworking of previous ideas but narrowly focused on the Presidency of Donald Trump and the crisis that has prompted in American church life and civil so......more
I read this book (digital advance copy). I'm buying a copy of it to read it again. It is profound, it is life-changing, and it is a scathing criticism of the current administration on the basis of the teachings of Jesus. There's a logical arrangement of chapters, excellent commentary and discussion......more
Christ in Crisis by Jim Wallis is a deeply personal, timely and relevant response to the crisis in which our nation finds itself. This is a very powerful and provocative read. I was amazed at the way in which the author recounts the many disturbing and unacceptable actions by our current leadership......more
This is an important book. It’s target audience, I suspect, is Evangelical Christians and I hope it reaches them. I’m not one, but I am heartened that a very prominent, well respected and influential Evangelical leader, an elder, whose advice, guidance and ministering has been sought out in this pol......more
This book has made me feel a part of a community I hadn't hoped was available to me at this crucial time in our American history. Jim Wallis gives voice to what I could only feel deep in my gut and in my soul. I was thinking Matthew 25 when I didn't know it was Matthew 25, just that it was what I ha......more