Sojourners founder apologizes for suggesting World’s editor-in-chief ‘lies for a living’ but stands by his organization’s accepting grants from George Soros.

Sojourners founder Jim Wallis apologized Wednesday to Marvin Olasky for saying, “Glenn Beck lies for a living. I’m sad to see Marvin Olasky doing the same thing.”

Wallis told Christianity Today that he sent a private e-mail to Olasky and plans to speak with the editor-in-chief of World Magazine by phone on Friday.

“I was wrong, out of anger at the insinuation about the dependence on these foundations, I was wrong to imply that like Beck, Marvin lies for a living,” Wallis said. “Glenn Beck does lie for a living. Marvin Olasky doesn’t lie for a living; that’s not something I should say about a brother in Christ.”

At 3 p.m. Wednesday, Olasky said he had not received Wallis’s apology. “I’m always glad to talk with Jim,” he said. “It’s educational and entertaining.” He said that he later received an apology and welcomed it. “I look forward to our conversation on Friday,” Olasky said. “It’s always good to see Christians following the Matthew 18 pattern.”

Olasky published a column in World’s July 17 issue asking Wallis to admit his affiliations on the left, reporting that Sojourners receives funding from George Soros’s Open Society Institute (OSI).

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