Talk:Jim Wallis

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1 Marriage to Joyce Hollyday??
2 Theology
3 Communitarian
4 Dubious addition
5 Students for a Demo
6 JIm rocks but is this NPOV?
7 can this be posted?
8 news on Jim
9 Arrests

[edit] Marriage to Joyce Hollyday??

I can find no source collaborating that Jim Wallis was ever married to Joyce Hollyday. This seems inconsistent with some of his message, include lamenting the high divorce rate, so I think it might have been added as subtle slander. The external link sheds no light on the matter.

In my own research I've found some clues that indicate that he and Joyce holiday may have been married, but nothing conclusive enough yet to merit mentioning in this article.Kbomb 08:15, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Theology

Can we get more on Wallis' theology? Is he Reformed? Arminian? Has he ever spoken or written publicly about who he believes Jesus of Nazareth was? Sojourners' website doesn't tell us much. TexasDawg 1 July 2005 18:58 (UTC)

[edit] Communitarian

I'm personally sympathetic to left-communitarianism, and could see a reasonable argument for putting Wallis in that category. However, I've searched both Google and Lexis-Nexis and found no direct descriptions of Wallis as a communitarian from any sources whatsoever. Failing a citation, characterizing him as such in a Wikipedia article would thus constitute original research, which is prohibited by policy. (Wikipedia:No original research). RadicalSubversiv E 18:28, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Dubious addition

An anonymous user added the following to the article, which I have removed:

Wallis's denomination is the Evangelical Free Church. Jim Wallis was debated Dan Barker of the Freedom From Religion Foundation.

I've checked Wallis's official bio, as well as one from an independent reference source (Contemporary Authors Online), and found no reference to the Evangelical Free Church. Google doesn't turn up anything obvious either. I've followed Wallis for a while, and never seen any indication of an active denominational affiliation. The second sentence doesn't make sense as written, so I assume the author meant "has debated"; this is no doubt the case, but Wallis has debated hundreds of people in the media over the years, so I don't think this qualifies as encyclopedic.

RadicalSubversiv E 21:37, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Though Wallis was a student at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, a seminary of the Evangelical Free Church, I don't believe he has been a member of that particular denomination for decades. Kbomb 07:57, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Students for a Demo

"where he was President of Students for a Democratic Society"

Is there a cite for this? Otherwise will remove as unsupported

Google turns up a handful of hits, none particularly authoratitive, and his official bio does say "He spent his student years involved in the civil rights and antiwar movements." RadicalSubversiv E 13:40, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] JIm rocks but is this NPOV?

He is known for pointing out just how often Christ spoke of the need of people to take care of the hungery and how rarely Christ spoke of Homosexuality.

He feels this is in contrast to the agenda of the Religious right in America today

Um, that's mostly just badly written. But it's not in the article, so what exactly are you questioning? RadicalSubversiv E 30 June 2005 03:37 (UTC)

[edit] can this be posted?

"Jesus didn’t speak at all about homosexuality. There are about 12 verses in the Bible that touch on that question. Most of them are very contextual. There are thousands of verses on poverty. I don’t hear a lot of that conversation."

http://www.motherjones.com/news/qa/2005/03/gods_politics_jim_wallis.html

I'm still a little confused. I suppose you add a quote section heading to the article (or even better, take it to Wikiquote), but I can probably be more helpful if you explained exactly what you're wanting to do. RadicalSubversiv E 30 June 2005 22:21 (UTC)