Mobilizing Hope: Faith-Inspired Activism for a Post-Civil Rights Generation »

Adam Taylor is currently serving in a fellowship at the White House. He was formerly the Senior Political Director at Sojourners where he was responsible for leading the organization's advocacy, coalition building, and constituency outreach. He has also served as the executive director of Global Justice, an organization that educates and mobilizes students around global human rights and economic justice. Before co-founding Global Justice, he worked as an Associate at the Harvard University Carr Center for Human Rights and as an Urban Fellow in the Department of Housing Preservation and Development in New York City.

Jim Wallis is a bestselling author, public theologian, speaker, and international commentator on ethics and public life. He been named to serve on the White House Advisory Council on Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships. His latest book is Rediscovering Values: On Wall Street, Main Street, and Your Street--A Moral Compass for the New Economy. His two previous books, The Great Awakening: Reviving Faith & Politics in a Post-Religious Right America and God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It were both New York Times bestsellers. He is President and CEO of Sojourners; where he is editor-in-chief of Sojourners magazine. Wallis frequently speaks in the United States and abroad.

Martin Luther King Jr. read the words of the apostle Paul to the church in Rome--"Be transformed by the renewing of your mind"--as a call not to retreat from the world but to lead the world into the kingdom of God, where peace and justice reign. In King's day the presenting problem was entrenched racism; the movement of God was a revolution in civil rights and human dignity. Now Adam Taylor draws insights from that movement to the present, where the burden of the world is different but the need is the same.

See what today's transformed nonconformists are doing at home and abroad to keep in step with the God of justice and love, and find ways you can join the new nonconformists in an activism of hope.

Introduction: The Transformed Nonconformist
1 Activism Is a Story of Faith
2 Getting to the Root Cause of Injustice
3 Following a Holistic Jesus
4 Pragmatic Solidarity & Hopeful Activism
5 The Character of Campaigns
6 Redeeming the American Dream: From Rugged Individualism to the Beloved Community
7 New Wine for a Changed World
8 Racial Reconciliation and Racial Justice
9 From Narrow Fundamentalism to Global Leadership and Citizenship
10 From Solely Service to Civic Discipleship Conclusion: A Lifetime Sojourn Epilogue Notes