Founding President of Sojourners, a Christian activist organization, and Editor of its Sojourners magazine; author of The Great Awakening: Reviving Faith & Politics in a Post-Religious Right America, God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It, On God's Side: What Religion Forgets and Politics Hasn't Learned About Serving the Common Good and America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America
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