May 29, 2012

Jim Wallis's Favorite Generation

Mikhail Bell, Institute on Religion and Democracy

Freshly back from a sabbatical, Evangelical Left icon Jim Wallis addressed the April 20-22 Illinois Conference on Interfaith Collaboration (ICIC) outside Chicago, attended by about 80 students and local residents. 

ICIC 2012 is part of a national initiative by the White House Interfaith and Community Service Campus Challenge, which focuses on service projects and “foundational goodness” to bring students from different religious backgrounds together.

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