God's Politics (Abridged)

by Jim Wallis Narrated by Jim Wallis, Sam Freed

Overview

Since when did believing in God and having moral values make you pro-war, pro-rich, and solely pro-Republican? And since when did promoting and pursuing a progressive social agenda with a concern for economic security, health care, and educational opportunity mean you had to put faith in God aside?

God's Politics offers a clarion call to make both our religious communities and our government more accountable to key values of the prophetic religious tradition -- that is, make them pro-justice, pro-peace, pro-environment, pro-equality, and pro-family (without making scapegoats of single mothers or gays). Our biblical faith and religious traditions simply do not allow us as a nation to continue to ignore the poor and marginalized, deny racial justice, tolerate the ravages of war, or turn away from the human rights of those made in the image of God. These are the values of love and justice, reconciliation, and community that Jesus taught and that are at the core of what many of us believe, Christian or not. Jim Wallis inspires us to hold our political leaders and policies accountable by integrating our deepest moral convictions into our nation's public life.

Read by Sam Freed

Editorial Reviews

AUG/SEP 05 - AudioFile

Jim Wallis reads the introduction to this work, and though it’s useful to hear the author himself, in a way, it's a distraction. Sam Freed's delivery is clear, focused, and smooth, covering the many facets of Wallis's discussion of contemporary politics and the role Judeo-Christian religion and morality should play in it. However, Freed speaks more quickly and more lightly, without the deep personal emotion that fills, and slows, Wallis's delivery. That aside, this work adapts well to audio, as Wallis returns to key points repeatedly, wrestling with them time and again and relating them to various useful contexts. G.T.B. © AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine

AUG/SEP 05 - AudioFile

Jim Wallis reads the introduction to this work, and though it’s useful to hear the author himself, in a way, it's a distraction. Sam Freed's delivery is clear, focused, and smooth, covering the many facets of Wallis's discussion of contemporary politics and the role Judeo-Christian religion and morality should play in it. However, Freed speaks more quickly and more lightly, without the deep personal emotion that fills, and slows, Wallis's delivery. That aside, this work adapts well to audio, as Wallis returns to key points repeatedly, wrestling with them time and again and relating them to various useful contexts. G.T.B. © AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine

Product Details

BN ID:	2940170093908
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	05/24/2005
Edition description:	Abridged

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