Sojourners and Soros: The sequel

Finessing financials and the left | Marvin Olasky

Illustration by Krieg Barrie


(Jim Wallis called this morning [Friday, Aug. 27] and asked me to forgive him for reacting to my initial Soros/Sojourners column by calling me a liar. I certainly do forgive him. —Marvin Olasky)

Jim Wallis has been the subject of some recent blogosphere humor. Hugh Hewitt wrote, "Most folks who receive donations from billionaires tend not to forget them, so pray for Jim Wallis's memory." Scholar William Voegeli wondered whether Sojourners "is drowning in money," since Wallis didn't remember that megabucks leftist George Soros gave $325,000 to his organization. With Jim's denial appearing Clintonian, Baylor's Francis Beckwith imagined Wallis saying, I did not have financial relations with that Soros.