__Finding Common Ground for the Common Good__   
There is a war going on in our nation's political discourse. Polarizing labels--left/right, Republican/Democrat, young/old, rich/poor, traditional/progressive--define and divide us. And in the process we've lost a vision for the common good.  
  
Jim Wallis believes our life together can be better. And he thinks both conservatives and liberals have something to offer in finding answers to today's complex problems. Personal responsibility and social responsibility are equally important: we must make good individual choices and also care for our neighbors. Wallis explores the role government can play in promoting the good of society, showing how its balanced presence can make a difference in the lives of the poor and vulnerable, and he offers hope for a more respectful conversation. He suggests making "Ten Personal Decisions for the Common Good" as you envision a more hopeful future.  
  
This is a selection from The (Un)Common Good: How the Gospel Brings Hope to a World Divided.

__Jim Wallis__ is president and founder of Sojourners and editor in chief of Sojourners magazine. He is a best-selling author, public theologian, nationally known preacher, social activist, and international commentator on ethics and public life. Wallis has written ten books and is a frequent speaker in the United States and abroad. He has written for major newspapers and appears on CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News. He is married to Joy Carroll, is the father of Luke and Jack, and is a Little League baseball coach.

There is a war going on in our nation's political discourse. Polarizing labels--left/right, Republican/Democrat, young/old, rich/poor, traditional/progressive--define and divide us. And in the process we've lost a vision for the common good.  
  
Jim Wallis believes our life together can be better. And he thinks both conservatives and liberals have something to offer in finding answers to today's complex problems. Personal responsibility and social responsibility are equally important: we must make good individual choices and also care for our neighbors. Wallis explores the role government can play in promoting the good of society, showing how its balanced presence can make a difference in the lives of the poor and vulnerable, and he offers hope for a more respectful conversation. He suggests making "Ten Personal Decisions for the Common Good" as you envision a more hopeful future.  
  
This is a selection from The (Un)Common Good: How the Gospel Brings Hope to a World Divided.

There is a war going on in our nation's political discourse. Polarizing labels define and divide us. In the process, we've lost a vision for the common good. Jim Wallis shows that both conservatives and liberals have something to offer in finding answers to today's complex problems.

This ebook discusses the divide in American politics, advocating for a balanced approach combining personal and social responsibility. It includes ten decisions for the common good.

\["For readers seeking unity in today's divided politics", "Helps navigate polarising political labels and ideas", "You will find hope for respectful conversations ahead"\]

This ebook explores the balance between personal and social responsibility in political discourse.

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Here the leading Christian activist and Washington commentator, Jim Wallis, strives to help you understand what it will take to effect lasting change for good in western society. A bestselling author, public theologian, preacher and moral social reformist, he starts from Abraham Lincoln’s famous if too often ignored comment: "My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side."

Continuing his cross-boundary, pan political Christian message of his bestsellers ‘God’s Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It’ and ‘The Great Awakening’ he makes clear what we still have to grasp if we are to be on God's side.

Now, in ‘On God’s Side’, Jim Wallis provides the pointers toward how Jesus' message redirects not only the public life and priorities of national governments and institutions, but our individual lives too. The transformative nature of the gospel of the kingdom of God helps us recover the personal and social commitment to the common good directing and empowering us to be personally responsible and socially just.

It’s by working together, insists Wallis, that we can reshape our churches, society, politics, and economy. And that requires us to move beyond party political warfare through how we read the Bible and shape our lives for genuine transformation.

“Jim Wallis is a wrestler of values, ideas, and policies and how they interact to shape the world we live in. His deep, melodious voice is easy to listen to, but what he says takes a harder commitment to live by.” – Bono, lead singer of U2 &amp; cofounder of ONE.org

__How Supply Chains Can Become Value Chains__   
The headlines are almost unfathomable: More than one thousand Bangladesh garment-industry workers killed when their building collapsed. Over one hundred workers killed in a poultry-factory fire in China. Harsh conditions and a rash of suicides at a Taiwanese company producing cell phones. These tragedies highlight the hazardous working conditions for much of the world's population. Are inexpensive clothes and the latest iPhone worth it?  
  
When we think of the individuals who make our lives work as our neighbors--crossing cultural, racial, religious, regional, and tribal boundaries--it might cause us to change how we do business. All of God's children are our neighbors, says Jim Wallis, a radical concept that is essential to the common good in our increasingly globalized culture. He suggests making "Ten Personal Decisions for the Common Good" to help improve things from your corner of the world.  
  
This is a selection from The (Un)Common Good: How the Gospel Brings Hope to a World Divided.

The headlines are almost unfathomable: More than one thousand Bangladesh garment-industry workers killed when their building collapsed. Over one hundred workers killed in a poultry-factory fire in China. Harsh conditions and a rash of suicides at a Taiwanese company producing cell phones. These tragedies highlight the hazardous working conditions for much of the world's population. Are inexpensive clothes and the latest iPhone worth it?  
  
When we think of the individuals who make our lives work as our neighbors--crossing cultural, racial, religious, regional, and tribal boundaries--it might cause us to change how we do business. All of God's children are our neighbors, says Jim Wallis, a radical concept that is essential to the common good in our increasingly globalized culture. He suggests making "Ten Personal Decisions for the Common Good" to help improve things from your corner of the world.  
  
This is a selection from The (Un)Common Good: How the Gospel Brings Hope to a World Divided.

Much of the world's population experience hazardous working conditions. Are inexpensive clothes and the latest iPhone worth it? When we think of the individuals who make our lives work as our neighbors--crossing cultural, racial, religious, regional, and tribal boundaries--it might cause us to change how we do business.

This ebook discusses the impact of globalisation on workers' rights, highlighting tragedies in manufacturing. It offers insights for ethical consumerism and personal responsibility.

\["For socially-conscious readers seeking ethical insights", "Highlights dangers faced by workers making our products", "You will rethink your purchasing choices for good"\]

This ebook explores the human cost of global production.

__Responding to Economic Injustice__   
The collapse of financial systems and the resulting economic crisis have caused a growing distrust of the way things operate. Why has the global economy become so unfair, unsustainable, and unstable, with the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer? A conversation about how the market should operate within a moral framework is needed now more than ever.  
  
Jim Wallis shows that God requires a different kind of economy--both globally and domestically--and provides principles that should guide economic policy matters, including clarity, transparency, accountability, and protecting the common good against private greed. Our financial institutions require real reform, but so do our own economic choices, desires, and demands, for they have far-reaching consequences. Wallis explores things we can all do to help fix the financial crisis and suggests making "Ten Personal Decisions for the Common Good."  
  
This is a selection from The (Un)Common Good: How the Gospel Brings Hope to a World Divided.

The collapse of financial systems and the resulting economic crisis have caused a growing distrust of the way things operate. Why has the global economy become so unfair, unsustainable, and unstable, with the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer? A conversation about how the market should operate within a moral framework is needed now more than ever.  
  
Jim Wallis shows that God requires a different kind of economy--both globally and domestically--and provides principles that should guide economic policy matters, including clarity, transparency, accountability, and protecting the common good against private greed. Our financial institutions require real reform, but so do our own economic choices, desires, and demands, for they have far-reaching consequences. Wallis explores things we can all do to help fix the financial crisis and suggests making "Ten Personal Decisions for the Common Good."  
  
This is a selection from The (Un)Common Good: How the Gospel Brings Hope to a World Divided.

Why has the global economy become so unfair and unsustainable, with the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer? Jim Wallis shows that God requires a different kind of economy--both globally and domestically--and provides principles that should guide economic policy matters.

"God's Economics" by Jim Wallis discusses the moral framework needed for economic systems. It covers principles for reform and personal choices for the common good. Ideal for those interested in faith-based economics.

\["For Christians seeking a fairer economic system", "Addresses the crisis of inequality and instability", "You will learn to make choices for the common good"\]

Explore economic justice with Jim Wallis in God's Economics.

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