The Great Awakening

Beyond broken partisan divides lies a moral center where shared spiritual values can transform American public life.

Now in paperback: the bestselling author of God’s Politics revives our hope in a politics that reflects our highest common values and offers a roadmap for solving our biggest social problems.

Wallis traces this revival from civil rights pulpits to modern alliances tackling extreme poverty and environmental degradation. The volume outlines practical commitments for protecting families, resolving conflict through nonviolence, and seeking the common good.

Across college campuses and urban neighborhoods, the author chronicles emerging leaders who are organizing around peace, racial equity, and community renewal.

• Faith and Politics: Details Martin Luther King Jr.’s midnight kitchen-table prayer during the Montgomery bus boycott as evidence that durable civil rights breakthroughs require deep personal spiritual foundations.


• Social Justice: Examines how eighteenth-century parliamentarian William Wilberforce and hymn writer John Newton linked evangelical revival directly to the abolition of the British slave trade.


• Creation Care: Explores how a rising coalition of evangelical pastors and scientists is reframing climate change, clean air, and energy conservation as non-negotiable biblical imperatives.


• Church and State: Proposes a prophetic rather than partisan model of public engagement, demonstrating how religious communities can hold governments accountable without being co-opted by political parties.


• Also by This Author: Christ in Crisis, God’s Politics and The Call to Conversion.