The Journey of Jim Wallis

Here’s a pretty snide article on Jim Wallis from the Weekly Standard (well, what did you expect?). One interesting thing that comes through is that Wallis seems to have become less radical over the years. I mean, if you go from being an outspoken pacifist writing for a journal called the Post-American (the predecessor to Sojourners) to meeting with Hillary Clinton and Harry Reid, you must be doing something right (well, if getting access to the corridors of power is doing right, that is).

Also, I’m not one to hold people too strictly to things they said 25 years ago, but did Wallis really say this about the Vietnamese boat people:

“Many of today’s refugees were inoculated with a taste for a Western lifestyle during the war years and are fleeing to support their consumer habit in other lands.”

Yikes!