Faith may be a driving factor as more young people get involved in the quest for social justice, writes Jim Wallis, author of The Great Awakening and president of Sojourners, in an International Herald Tribune opinion piece.

Mr. Wallis believes that a new energy is awakening in young people of all faiths — not just among a new generation of “progressive evangelicals” — who consider themselves “part of a broader new and spiritually rooted progressive movement that includes the religious from many traditions, the ‘spiritual but not religious,’ and also secular youth who hunger for a moral dimension to public life.”