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A leading voice at the crossroads of faith and politics offers a prophetic appeal for our times: faced with a growing gap between the rich and poor, bombarded by national security alerts that ratchet up our stress levels, taxed by a government that spends billions of dollars on war -- where do we find hope? In this revised and updated edition of his classic, Jim Wallis insightfully critiques contemporary culture and politics, inspiring us with stories to convert our way of thinking and point to a solution to our current social and political...

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...

The explosion of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in December 1988, should never have happened. Wallis, who has extensive, direct, personal knowledge of aviation security matters gained from his position at the crossroads of security information and the industry's endeavors to combat aviation terrorism, had warned the industry one year before the bombing that the interline element of baggage represented the prime opportunity for terrorist activity and had urged the adoption of passenger and baggage matching, a system that he had helped to develop. Mandated by the FAA for use at...

In Sachen Spiritualität die Spreu vom Weizen trennen.

Der Religionswissenschaftler und Weisheitslehrer Dr. Christopher Wallis deckt in seinem Inspirationsbuch Toxic Spirituality die am weitesten verbreiteten Verzerrungen in den spirituellen Lehren unserer Zeit auf. Verwurzelt in den asiatischen Weisheitstraditionen zeigt er, warum viele leichthin gesagte Sätze wie »Werde die beste Version deiner selbst« oder »Du erschaffst deine eigene Realität« uns oft vom spirituellen Weg abbringen und sogar unnötiges Leiden verursachen können. Er analysiert jede...