Cloud of Witnesses

Name: Cloud of Witnesses
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ISBN: 9781570755712

ISBN-10: 157075571X

ISBN-13: 9781570755712

Edition: 2005 (Revised)

Authors: Jim Wallis, Joyce Hollyday, Robert Ellsberg

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List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Orbis Books
Publication date: 1/1/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.75" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Jim Wallis was born in Detroit, Michigan on June 4, 1948. He graduated from Michigan State University and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He is an evangelical Christian writer and political activist, best known as the founder and editor of Sojourners Magazine and of the Washington, D.C.-based Christian community of the same name. He has written numerous books including The Great Awakening; Reviving Faith and Politics in a Post-Religious Right America (2008), God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It (2005), Faith Works: How Faith Based Organizations Are Changing Lives, Neighborhoods, and America (2000), The Soul of Politics: Beyond Religious Right and…

Foreword to the revised edition
Introduction to the 1991 edition
St. Francis of Assisi : consumed with the gospel	p. 3
Dorothy Day : a radical simplicity	p. 9
Chuck Matthei : the duty of delight	p. 15
Jon Sobrino : touching the idols	p. 21
Albertina Sisulu : "I'll never bow down"	p. 29
Sister Dianna Ortiz : death's dance broken	p. 37
George Tinker : survival and self-determination	p. 43
Jean Vanier : welcoming the little ones	p. 55
Clarence Jordan : theologian in overalls	p. 60
William Stringfellow : keeper of the word	p. 66
Henri Nouwen : a heart's desire	p. 72
Martin Luther King, Jr. : dangerous prophet	p. 81
Myles Horton : leaving the best heritage	p. 90
Fannie Lou Hamer : stepping out into freedom	p. 101
Miguel D'Escoto : priest of the people	p. 110
Sojourner Truth : a pillar of fire	p. 118
Sanctuary : a conspiracy of compassion	p. 135
Beyers Naude : breaking ranks	p. 147
Brian Willson : standing for truth	p. 156
Pedro Arrupe : finding God in all things	p. 166
Penny Lernoux : a journey of trust	p. 173
Joan Chittister : the fullness of grace	p. 183
Elias Chacour : beyond all boundaries	p. 193
Howard Thurman : in love with life	p. 202
Dom Helder Camara : hope against hope	p. 207
Athol Gill : a follower of Jesus	p. 216
Daniel Berrigan : the push of conscience	p. 223
George Zabelka : chaplain for peace	p. 231
Peacemakers : an endowment of courage	p. 238
Thomas Merton : a noisy vocation in the silent life	p. 246
Dietrich Bonhoeffer : faith and conviction	p. 261
Martin Niemoeller : a confessional courage	p. 266
Oscar Romero : a shout of victory	p. 274
Edicio de la Torre : like dove and serpent	p. 280
Four U.S. martyrs : a journey of more than miles	p. 285
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