Billy Shore, founder and chairman of Share Our Strength and the architect of the No Kid Hungry campaign, talks with Rev. Jim Wallis about how to feed the kids who are missing nearly 34 million meals each day now that schools are shuttered because of the coronavirus.

"Hopefully one of our responsibilities or charges from a leadership point of view is to help people see how we can make some permanent changes, so the next time there's such a crisis, the vulnerable are not as vulnerable; we're more on an equal footing," Shore says.

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Latin American theologian, missiologist, and educator Ruth Padilla DeBorst and Rev. Jim Wallis discuss the importance of social consciousness in the creation of government policy. 

Speaking of government priorities, Padilla DeBorst says, "If there is an awareness that the place of government is to guarantee the wellbeing of people and not just to serve the interests of a few or to line one's pockets, it makes a big difference. That's something we can be grateful for at same time as we mourn the lack of that kind of consciousness on the part of many governments in the world."

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Brian Gallagher, the CEO of United Way Worldwide, speaks with Rev. Jim Wallis about the catastrophic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on his perspective as the leader of a global network that represents organizations from 40 countries and six continents, Gallagher says, "Extreme political leaders are crushing the soul of our country right now."

Addressing extremism from the political right and left, Gallagher calls for us to work together for the common good, especially in the wake of the devastation of the coronavirus.

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Myrna Pérez, director of the Brennan Center's Voting Rights and Elections Program, discusses the role of faith in democracy with Rev. Jim Wallis. Pérez and Wallis examine challenges to exercising our right to vote during the pandemic. Together, they discuss the biblical precepts that require all people of faith to defend the voting rights of all Americans, especially those who are the most marginalized.

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In this very special Easter Sunday Sermon episode of The Soul of the Nation podcast, Fr. Richard Rohr and Rev. Jim Wallis discuss the many examples of hope and grace to be found amid the despair of the deadly coronavirus pandemic. Rohr is a Franciscan of the New Mexico Province, an academic dean and author, a spiritual teacher, and the founder of the Center for Action and Contemplation in Albuquerque, N.M.

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Emergency Medicine expert Dr. Mel Herbert talks with Rev Jim Wallis on the importance of spiritual healing in a time of medical crisis. Herbert is an award-winning professor, physician, and editor who serves as the attending physician and professor of emergency medicine at the UCLA School of Medicine. Herbert shares with Wallis the uplifting stories of the medical heroes battling on the front lines to keep the public safe.

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Dr. Larry Brilliant, an American epidemiologist who helped eradicate smallpox in the 1970s, and Rev. Jim Wallis discuss the current administration's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Brilliant outlines the moral, ethical, and scientific responses needed to respond effectively to the coronavirus.

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As the nation tries to slow the advance of the coronavirus pandemic, most of the nation is engaged in responsible social distancing. In this episode of our Sunday Sermon in a Pandemic series, Sojourners Executive Director Adam Taylor and Rev. Jim Wallis share their thoughts on biblical teachings that can guide us through these times when the staggering devastation of the COVID-19 pandemic ravages our nation — and the world — after months of unconscionable inaction by President Trump.

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The massive $2 trillion stimulus bill will provide relief for many Americans during the financial crisis created by the COVID-19 pandemic. But many vulnerable people will be ineligible for much-needed financial aid.

The Rev. Jim Wallis and Robert Greenstein, president of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, dissect the particulars of the bill, explaining how you can access the protections contained in the legislation. They also highlight the failures of the aid package that ignore the needs of the people on the margins of society whom Jesus calls us to feed, clothe, and shelter.

Greenstein calls us to apply the "golden rule" in the fight ahead, so that we can expand coverage to our brothers and sisters who need it most in the next round. 

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As the nation tries to slow the advance of the Coronavirus Pandemic, we are all engaged in responsible social distancing. In this first episode of the Sunday Sermon in a Pandemic Podcast, Bishop Michael Curry and the Reverend Jim Wallis discuss making connections to faith and worship, spirituality and justice, in the digital and social media age.

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