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Rediscovering Values
Jim Wallis
On Wall Street, Main Street, And Your Street
Howard Books
January 2010
On Sale: January 5, 2010
272 pages
ISBN: 1439183120
EAN: 9781439183120
Hardcover
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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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