Unbiblical trends in the church tend to snowball, producing even worse trends: each heretical book or teaching that comes along seems to lead to a worse one; the Bible says in 2 Timothy 3:13 that in the last days, 'evil men and seducers [imposters] shall wax worse and worse deceiving and being deceived,' suggesting a progressive pattern of deception.
For those who remember the old 'Dragnet' TV show, allow me to 'reinvent' Joe Friday: 'The story you are about to hear is true. None of the names have been changed - and the only thing I'm interested in protecting is the Gospel of Jesus Christ'... For nearly forty years, Jim Wallis has expressed himself through an organization called 'Sojourners.' He was raised in an evangelical family in Detroit, and attended Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, but his radical political views made it impossible for him to finish there.
At that time, he also founded an anti-capitalist magazine called, The Post-American, in which he called for the redistribution of wealthand an economy managed by the government. He also experimented for a season with communal living in search of a utopian lifestyle.
In 1972, he moved his work to Washington DC and renamed it Sojourners. He wasn't just against the Vietnam war, he rejoiced in America's defeat there showing his leftist sympathies by publicly criticizing the Vietnamese and Hmong refugees who fled that communist regime (we called them 'boat people' back then), by claiming they were leaving to support their consumer habit in other lands... that being greedy capitalists made it just too hard to live under a dictatorship. In remembering the terrible suffering that the boat people endured, what uncompassionate sentiments by Wallis.
Wallis also supported the Sandinista Communists in their attempt to take over Nicaragua in the 80s, actively participating in resistance against the American military - AND working side by side in this cause with none other than Jeremiah Wright, the radical anti-American Chicago preacher who was our president's pastor for twenty years.
In addition, Wallis supported the FMLN, a communist terror group from El Salvador itching to spread their Marxist revolution throughout South America. Men have been called 'traitors' for much less than what Wallis has stood for.
In 1983, the organization, Accuracy in Media published a lengthy book on the far left policies of Wallis and his organization, documenting 53 political positions of Sojourners on such issues as Israel's right to exist, terrorism, socialism, capitalism, human rights, etc. In all 53 position statements, it was found that Sojourners' views were completely in line with the views of hard-line Soviets.
Joan Harris, who did the reporting on this, observed, 'Sojourners never criticizes a Marxist state. The US and the West are the only violators of human rights to them because they are capitalist. Marxists, by Sojourners' own definition, cannot violate human rights.' Wallis calls himself a 'Progressive' - but keep in mind that 'progressive' is as far left as you can go politically without actually taking a right turn in the process.
Wallis believes that Castro's Cuba, Chavez's Venezuela, and Ortega's Nicaragua are the Marxist paradises the US should emulate." It is not extreme at all to say, that one of his goals is to see the end of the US as we have known it" - 'Post-Americanism' finally realized. SO, AFTER BEING ARRESTED BY THE US GOVERNMENT 22 TIMES IN FORTY YEARS, WHERE HAS HE SOFT-LANDED? AS SPIRITUAL ADVISOR TO PRESIDENT OBAMA. NOW, WITH THE HELP OF OUR OWN GOVERNMENT, HE HOPES TO TURN MERE IDEOLOGY INTO POLICY. HE IS A LIVING, BREATHING ADVOCATE FOR TOTAL GOVERNMENT CONTROL, COMPLETE SOCIALISM, OR 'TOTALITARIAN SOCIALISM.'" (See here for full article).
Sojourners is behind the "Call to Renewal" movement, a movement supported by Father J. Bryan Hehir of the Boston Archdiocese. The question is: why would a Roman Catholic priest wish to associate himself with a radical such as Jim Wallis? Especially since Sojourners promotes the New Age Globalist Earth Charter, an initiative which seeks to replace the Ten Commandments and to neutralize the Catholic Church.