The Great Awakening

Reviving Faith & Politics in a Post-Religious Right America

By: Jim Wallis

Narrated by: Jim Wallis

What will it take to solve the biggest issues of our time: extreme and needless poverty, global warming and environmental degradation, terrorism and the endless cycle of violence, racism, human trafficking, health care and education, and other pressing problems? While Washington offers only the politics of blame and fear, Jim Wallis, the man who changed the conversation about faith and politics, has traveled the country and found a nation hungry for a politics of solutions and hope. He shows us that a revival is happening, as people of faith and moral conviction seek common ground for change.

Wallis also reminds us that religious faith was a driving force behind our greatest national reforms, such as the abolition of slavery and the civil rights movement. These ""great awakenings"" happened periodically at crucial times in our nation's history to propel us toward the common good. The time is ripe for another movement that will transform this country. With The Great Awakening, Wallis helps us rediscover our moral center and provides both the needed inspiration and a concrete plan to hold politics accountable and find solutions to our greatest challenges.

©2008 Jim Wallis; (P)2008 HarperCollins Publishers

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I was looking for the history of the awakenings. This was a coercive agenda-driven book meant to infer that Religion needed to change and drove different values. It is about the turn to socialism. Not about revival but politics and how to move to make it more palatable.