Rediscovering our values, asking the right questions
Amidst the current global economic crisis, Jim Wallis of Sojourners argues that the wrong question is: “When is it going to end?” The right question remains: “How will this economic crisis change us?”
This weekend, while riding out what look to be an historic DC snowstorm, I’m reading Wallis’s new book, Rediscovering Values: On Wall Street, Main Street, and Your Street.
Rediscovering Values comes out of sessions that Wallis, a long-time ONE supporter, led at last year’s World Economic Forum in Davos. Having just returned from the 2010 World Economic Forum, Wallis recently wrote:
“… even before this crisis, the global economic system was already failing half of God’s children — three billion people living on less than $2 per day. This is the time to bring them in and include them in the global economy.”
In the end, a full economic recovery will be a global economic recovery.
You can read his whole reflection on Davos 2010 here.
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