This, via Jesus Politics, lauds Wallis for being one of the few willing to speak the truth to power:

THAT OLD-TIME RELIGION – Los Angeles CityBeat

Jim Wallis, the left-wing evangelical preacher and peace activist, diagnosed it recently: “The Republicans virtually claim to own religion. And the Democrats still don’t seem to know how to take back the faith.” Wallis, curiously, has turned into something of a darling for the Democrats because he finds ways to articulate positions – on poverty, on the environment, on the very question of political activism – that many of them wish they had the courage to advocate themselves. And he does it in exquisitely moral terms, which makes them think he must be on to something.
Wallis has been packing audiences into churches and secular auditoriums as he tours the country promoting his best-selling book God’s Politics. On the L.A. leg of his tour, a few weeks ago, he had the hardcore anti-Bush crowd – essentially, punks, civil rights activists and Pacifica radio listeners – not only sitting through a church service at All Saint’s in Beverly Hills, but lapping up his every word.
What may have been troubling to the Pacifica crowd, and to many others on the secular left, is that Wallis believes religion is the key to a progressive revival in this country. What troubled them that night in Beverly Hills was not that they thought Wallis was wrong, but rather that they suspected he was entirely right. Wallis’s great hero and role model is Martin Luther King Jr., whose leadership of the civil rights movement would have been inconceivable without the support of black churches and his own sense of a religious mission. Likewise, the backbone of opposition to the Vietnam War came from radical priests who argued against the war in specifically moral terms. That’s the kind of religious politics to which Wallis wants to return.

I am so pleased to see Jim getting the recognition and garnering the support and the leadership role he has long deserved. And at this moment in political/international history, when the powers that be on this earth are in perilous hands, it is all the more crucial.