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Rediscovering Values: On Wall Street, Main Street, and Your Street |  | Author: Jim Wallis
Publisher: Howard Books
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ISBN: 1439183120
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Publication Date: January 5, 2010
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When we start with the wrong question, no matter how good an answer we get, it won’t give us the results we want. Rather than joining the throngs who are asking, When will this economic crisis be over? Jim Wallis says the right question to ask is How will this crisis change us? The worst thing we can do now, Wallis tells us, is to go back to normal. Normal is what got us into this situation. We need a new normal, and this economic crisis is an invitation to discover what that means. Some of the principles Wallis unpacks for our new normal are . . . • Spending money we don’t have for things we don’t need is a bad foundation for an economy or a family. • It’s time to stop keeping up with the Joneses and start making sure the Joneses are okay. • The values of commercials and billboards are not the things we want to teach our children. • Care for the poor is not just a moral duty but is critical for the common good. • A healthy society is a balanced society in which markets, the government, and our communities all play a role. • The operating principle of God’s economy says that there is enough if we share it. • And much, much more . . . In the pages of this book, Wallis provides us with a moral compass for this new economy—one that will guide us on Wall Street, Main Street, and Your Street. Embracing a New Economy Getting back to "the way things were" is not an option. It is time we take our economic uncertainty and use it to find some moral clarity. Too often we have been ruled by the maxims that greed is good, it’s all about me, and I want it now. Those can be challenged only with some of our oldest and best values—enough is enough, we are in it together, and thinking not just for tomorrow but for future generations. Jim Wallis shows that the solution to our problems will be found only as individuals, families, friends, churches, mosques, synagogues, and entire communities wrestle with the question of values together.
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 Transforming Yourself and Inevitably Transforming the Nation March 10, 2010
Dolly K. Patterson
This is the best book by Wallis I have read. He offers a fresh perspective on a national crisis I didn't think I could do anything about even though I felt victimized and angry by it. Not only does Wallis suggest the Nation view the crisis from a perspective asking "How will this crisis change us?" but he admonishes us not to try to go back to the "normal," "to the way things use to be".
The book also helped me revisit my own perspective on 95 weeks of unemployment from one of anxiety and anger to one of pondering and prayer.
 An Excellent View of Our World March 6, 2010
Jane M. Baker (Salem MA)
As always, Jim Wallis is worth reading and thinking about. In this book he has sited little summaries in large type to reinforce the point and help you find it again. Here he tells us what we choose to ignore and reminds us that we humans can do better--for one another and for the world.
More than A Moral Compass: Wallis Delivers Once More February 24, 2010
Leon Bloder (Eustis, FL USA)
Jim Wallis has never been one to shy away from tough topics. In "God's Politics" he stepped all over the toes of politicos from the right and the left on his way toward higher ground in the American political conversation. In "The Great Awakening" he called out the religious, political and commercial special interest groups that have long had a stranglehold on the way we think and talk about faith and politics as he envisioned a new way forward in a "post-religious" America.
Now in "Rediscovering Values" Wallis prophetic voice rings out some hard truths into the canyons of Big Business, Big Banking and an often complicit Big Government. Wallis is more than a critic, more than a simple naysayer--the kind that we so often hear on talk radio and pitted against one another on cable news. Like his previous work, "Rediscovering Values" offers solutions rather than just pontificating on the problem. But it's not as though the problem doesn't get some airtime in Rediscovering Values. It does.
Wallis intentionally peppers his work with Biblical imagery and language that would have been at home on the lips of Old Testament prophets, especially when he is pointing out the ways in which God has been mocked by our greed and replaced by false gods like the Market. "The market," Wallis writes, "has become our 'golden calf' our idol of ultimate allegiance." (28) He goes on to say that "Today instead of statues, we have hedge funds, mortgage-backed securities, 401(k)s, and mutual funds." (29) This allegiance to the god of the market was so total and so complete that we began, according to Wallis, to give the market godlike qualities. It became "all-knowing, all-present, all-powerful, even eternal--unable to be resisted or even questioned." He goes on to relate the story of the Great Recession: the downfall of the mighty, the waste of cities, the betrayal and the disillusionment of a people.
Rediscovering Values is more than a cautionary tale of what happens when a few greedy people are given too much control--it is the story of how all of us own our share in what happened to the world's economy. And even further, we all own our share in what is happening to the Earth, to our souls and to the future our children will inherit.
Wallis fills what could have been a very somber read into one that is filled with signs of life and visions of hope. He concludes that in the end, if we all assume responsibility for the change that must occur in our spending, in our wasteful habits, in our consumption of resources that the tide can turn, that there can be redemption. God spoke to his people quite plainly through the prophet Malachi, "return to me and I will return to you." It is easy to hear those words echoed all throughout Rediscovering Values. It is a great read, thoroughly engaging and what America needs to hear now more than ever.
Rediscovering Values February 15, 2010
Joan (Small town Iowa)
Lots of interesting thoughts, statistics, and questions. I really appreciate the 'action items'. Increases my desire for more regulation of our banking and finance industry.
Inspiring AND Practical! February 14, 2010
Kay Nichols (San Francisco CA)
What a timely book! Just when I was thinking that nothing could be done about our financial woes -- from personal to international -- along comes heartening news. It's a faith-based approach, but it's also a "how-to" that can change how we behave when it comes to the economy.
This is a book to be savored, contemplated, and discussed with others. In fact, we're forming a discussion (and action) group in my community using the book as a resource.
Thank you Sojourners, for leading the way.
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