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Friday, March 12, 2010

Part one of a two-part series on church efforts to fight poverty in Dallas

DALLAS — After four days of the Justice Revival, and more than a year of wrangling city pastors into an unprecedented multi-racial coalition, Rev. Jim Wallis finally took the stage at Dallas Market Hall. He aimed to ignite a movement.

All great achievements in social justice — abolition, women's suffrage, civil rights — have come through church leadership, he would tell them. "And we are being so bold as to say it can happen again — even here in Dallas." 

Even in Dallas.

Maybe that was a slip. Wallis ...

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