Rediscovering Values: On Wall Street, Main Street, And Your Street
Written by Jim Wallis
Narrated by Jim Wallis
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Whether it’s your own loss or that of friends and neighbors, the economic crisis has impacted every household. We are consumed with the ramifications of lost jobs, house foreclosures, destroyed savings, and insecure futures. But lying beneath the surface of these fearful and uncertain times is a deficit with implications even more destructive to our culture than the current crisis of the depressed market.
Employing anecdotes as well as political and cultural insights, Wallis emboldens listeners to make “neighborly” and community choices to help those in their personal sphere of influence. Wallis maintains that only within such spiritual and moral choices will we find the truly significant answers to our economic recession. As we rediscover eternal values, our nation and our world will find the personal and cultural transformation it desperately needs.
Jim Wallis
Jim Wallis is the author of the New York Times bestseller God's Politics, which electrified Americans disenchanted with how the Right had co-opted all talk about integrating religious values into our politics by offering an alternative voice. Wallis is a leading figure at the crossroads of religion and politics in America today, the author of eight books, and the founder of Sojourners, a global faith and justice network. He is a public theologian, an internationally renowned speaker and preacher, a faith-based activist, husband, and father to two young boys, and a Little League baseball coach.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This book had a different beat to it, and I liked the illustrations.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The current economic crisis is an opportunity for us to re-evaluate our priorities and values.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A sobering yet necessary book describing the moral condition of the American-- and really, the global-- economy.Wallis sets forth the processes by which "the Market" all but took over the world and thinking of many people and how we have become so consumption-oriented and consumption-focused. He identifies the difficulties that got us into this mess-- unrestrained capitalism, hyper-selfishness, and greed-- and demonstrates the disparities and challenges that have come as a result.The book is an exhortation to take the opportunity provided by this economic crisis to re-establish principles of social justice-- ethical capitalism, concern not just for oneself but also the welfare of one's neighbor, work that has meaning, re-establishing community, and so on and so forth.If you have recognized how our society has become morally bankrupt in so many ways because of market ideology and over-consumption, you will find great value in this book. If you have not yet recognized these things, this book may assist you in understanding them.