Research Fellow
Center on Faith and Justice
November 13, 2024
Senior Research Fellow E.J. Dionne and Research Fellow Jim Wallis will participate in the November 20 event "Religion, Politics, and the 2024 U.S. Elections: What Happened and What Comes Next?" The panel will explore insights on the conservative Christian vote in the 2024 election and examine the role of Christian nationalist networks in election denialism and the January 6 Insurrection.
Reverend Jim Wallis is a bestselling author, public theologian, and commentator on religion and public life, faith, and politics who serves as the inaugural Archbishop Desmond Tutu Chair in Faith and Justice and leader of the Center on Faith and Justice in the Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy; he has been a research fellow at the Berkley Center since 2010. Wallis is the founder and ambassador of Sojourners, a progressive Christian grassroots movement that advocates spirituality and social change in America. His publications include Christ in Crisis: Why We Need to Reclaim Jesus (2019); America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America (2016); The (Un)Common Good: How the Gospel Brings Hope to a World Divided (2014); On God's Side: What Religion Forgets and Politics Hasn't Learned about Serving the Common Good (2013); and Rediscovering Values: On Wall Street, Main Street, and Your Street — A Moral Compass for the New Economy (2010).
