Read more at sojo.net ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ View this email in your browser [[link removed]] [[link removed]] The Next Part of the Race [[link removed]] Jim Wallis, Adam Russell TaylorIn January, Sojourners enters its 50th year — 50 years of working to inspire
hope by articulating the biblical call to social justice and working toward a
vision of the “beloved community.” When I first began reflecting on that
impending anniversary years ago, my first thought was: I don’t want to go back
to my desk the morning after that celebration. I also knew that I wanted
Sojourners to go on long beyond the founder, that we would need a new generation
of leadership to take Sojourners into the next 50 years. That vision of a
multiracial, multigenerational “beloved community” — as Rev. Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr. and Congressman John Lewis called for — has always been at my and
Sojourners' core, something for which we have always engaged, worked, and
fought. And when I began to think about a successor, one name kept coming to my
mind: Adam Russell Taylor. I first met Adam 20 years ago when he was a student
in my first class on faith and politics at the Harvard Kennedy School. He was
one of my best students, and the next year, he became my teaching assistant for
the course.

Adam came to the class already a committed activist, but he left ready and
better equipped to apply his faith to his activism, a clear future leader. He
served Sojourners as our senior political director until 2009, when he was
selected as a White House fellow in the first year of the Obama administration.
He went on to become the vice president of advocacy for World Vision, and then
created and led a faith initiative at the World Bank Group. Throughout the
years, Adam and I remained close and regularly connected in our work. In 2014,
he became chair of the Sojourners board. Adam went from being my student to my
boss.

It was Adam’s commitment to justice that always most impressed me, and I have
watched him integrate that so deeply with his personal faith commitment — and
take it into public life.

I believe that Adam Taylor’s personal story, scholarship, breadth of experience,
vision, sense of vocation, and ordination in the Black church all uniquely
prepare him to lead Sojourners as its first African American president. In his
forthcoming book, A More Perfect Union: A New Vision for Building Beloved Community (fall 2021), Adam paints a picture of this vision; read a bit of it in his own
words at the link below.

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