Other Activities
Along with the magazine, Sojourners also produces a website. The organization publishes resources on a number of social justice and faith issues; it sponsors a year of voluntary service; and it engages the wider Christian community through mobilizing, media outreach, speaking, teaching, preaching, and public events. Over the years, Sojourners has provided leadership and support to various other activities including the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign, the Free South Africa movement, and opposition to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, among other concerns.
In 2010, Wallis was interviewed in episode six of "God in America" a documentary featured on PBS from Frontline and American Experience.
Musician Moby recorded a three-part interview on Sojourners’ God’s Politics blog about his journey into faith and politics.
Sojourners CEO Wallis served as a member of President Obama’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Community Partnerships, which advises the president and White House staff on a range of concerns. Sojourners has organized high-level meetings with the White House and political leaders on both sides of the aisle.
Then-Sen. Barack Obama gave his first major speech on the subject of religion in the public sphere at Sojourners’ Call to Renewal conference in 2006, talking about his personal faith journey and his vision for people of faith in public life.
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