Jim Wallis on "The Daily Show"

by Heidi Schlumpf on Jan. 25, 2010

If you haven't already seen it, check out Jim Wallis, editor of Sojourners magazine and author of the new book, Rediscovering Values, as interviewed last week by Jon Stewart on "The Daily Show" here.

Wallis suggests to Stewart that bank executives send their massive bonuses to Haiti. In the book, he argues that the solution to the economic crisis is for Americans to regain their moral compass, especially around issues of consumption and consumerism.

He's a strong moral voice worth listening to--and reading.

Fire your bank!! Too big to

Submitted by frère charles du désert OSB OBLAT (Congrégation de Subiaco) (not verified) on Jan. 25, 2010.

Fire your bank!!

Too big to fail?

Make it smaller . . .

Move your money.

It's all a Ponzi scheme anyway . . .

great link, Ms. Shlumpf, thanks!

(no tv here or I would be on it all night!)

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