{"id":6,"date":"2006-09-15T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-15T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godspolitics\/2006\/09\/jim-wallis-welcome.html"},"modified":"2006-09-15T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-15T12:00:00","slug":"jim-wallis-welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godspolitics\/2006\/09\/jim-wallis-welcome.html","title":{"rendered":"Jim Wallis: Welcome!"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/div>\n

\"JimI want to welcome you to the first edition of \u201cGod\u2019s Politics\u201d–The Blog–a new project done in an exciting partnership between Sojourners and Beliefnet. The God\u2019s Politics Blog will provide fresh conversation about faith, politics, and society–every day– from \u201cJim Wallis and friends.\u201d We\u2019ve assembled an extraordinary group of writers and voices to help with the God\u2019s Politics Blog, including Brian McLaren, Amy Sullivan, Noel Castellanos, Robert Franklin, Diana Butler Bass, Obery Hendricks, Sister Helen Prejean, Ron Sider, Tony Campolo and others still being added. <\/p>\n

And then there\u2019s you! We invite all of you to the fast moving discussion that is spreading across the country and the globe about how faith can change the world. And this will be an open, civil, and inviting discussion that welcomes a real<\/b> dialogue–one not contained by the failed categories of right and left which have so polarized and paralyzed our public debate. That\u2019s because I find people across the political and religious spectrum who are looking for the \u201cmoral center\u201d of our public life, for the moral choices and challenges below the surface of our political debates, for a true \u201cvalues politics\u201d that challenges the selective moralities of both the right and the left. So welcome to the new town meeting on spirituality and politics, and I hope you will join right in!<\/p>\n

<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I want to welcome you to the first edition of \u201cGod\u2019s Politics\u201d–The Blog–a new project done in an exciting partnership between Sojourners and Beliefnet. The God\u2019s Politics Blog will provide fresh conversation about faith, politics, and society–every day– from \u201cJim Wallis and friends.\u201d We\u2019ve assembled an extraordinary group of writers and voices to help with…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nJim Wallis: Welcome! - God's Politics<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godspolitics\/2006\/09\/jim-wallis-welcome.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jim Wallis: Welcome! - God's Politics\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I want to welcome you to the first edition of \u201cGod\u2019s Politics\u201d–The Blog–a new project done in an exciting partnership between Sojourners and Beliefnet. The God\u2019s Politics Blog will provide fresh conversation about faith, politics, and society–every day– from \u201cJim Wallis and friends.\u201d We\u2019ve assembled an extraordinary group of writers and voices to help with…\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godspolitics\/2006\/09\/jim-wallis-welcome.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"God's Politics\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2006-09-15T12:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/www.sojo.net\/images\/sojomail\/wallis.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"jim wallis\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Jim Wallis: Welcome! - God's Politics","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godspolitics\/2006\/09\/jim-wallis-welcome.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Jim Wallis: Welcome! - God's Politics","og_description":"I want to welcome you to the first edition of \u201cGod\u2019s Politics\u201d–The Blog–a new project done in an exciting partnership between Sojourners and Beliefnet. The God\u2019s Politics Blog will provide fresh conversation about faith, politics, and society–every day– from \u201cJim Wallis and friends.\u201d We\u2019ve assembled an extraordinary group of writers and voices to help with…","og_url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godspolitics\/2006\/09\/jim-wallis-welcome.html","og_site_name":"God's Politics","article_published_time":"2006-09-15T12:00:00+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.sojo.net\/images\/sojomail\/wallis.jpg"}],"author":"jim wallis","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godspolitics\/2006\/09\/jim-wallis-welcome.html","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godspolitics\/2006\/09\/jim-wallis-welcome.html","name":"Jim Wallis: Welcome! - God's Politics","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godspolitics\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godspolitics\/2006\/09\/jim-wallis-welcome.html#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godspolitics\/2006\/09\/jim-wallis-welcome.html#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/www.sojo.net\/images\/sojomail\/wallis.jpg","datePublished":"2006-09-15T12:00:00+00:00","dateModified":"2006-09-15T12:00:00+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godspolitics\/#\/schema\/person\/94d89bc7b736bde5dfa5d912a31f89e4"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godspolitics\/2006\/09\/jim-wallis-welcome.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godspolitics\/2006\/09\/jim-wallis-welcome.html"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godspolitics\/2006\/09\/jim-wallis-welcome.html#primaryimage","url":"http:\/\/www.sojo.net\/images\/sojomail\/wallis.jpg","contentUrl":"http:\/\/www.sojo.net\/images\/sojomail\/wallis.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godspolitics\/2006\/09\/jim-wallis-welcome.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godspolitics"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Jim Wallis: Welcome!"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godspolitics\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godspolitics\/","name":"God's Politics","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godspolitics\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godspolitics\/#\/schema\/person\/94d89bc7b736bde5dfa5d912a31f89e4","name":"jim wallis","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godspolitics\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"jim wallis"},"url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godspolitics\/author\/jim-wallis"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godspolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godspolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godspolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godspolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godspolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godspolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godspolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godspolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godspolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}