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The Geneva Lecture Series Presents
Jim Wallis
Author, Activist, and Religious Leader
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"Biblical Faith and Political Values:
A New Vision for America" |
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Thursday, Sept. 13, 7:30 p.m.
Main Lounge (map of main floor)
Iowa Memorial Union (campus map)
Corner of Jefferson & Madison Iowa City, Iowa |
Respondent:
Corwin Smidt,
Professor of Political Science and
Executive Director,
Paul B. Henry Institute for the Study of Christianity and Politics
Calvin College
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About Jim Wallis
President and Executive Director
Sojourners / Call to Renewal
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Prof. Smidt will also offer a political science seminar:
"Determinants of Attitudes Toward the Role of Religion in Public Life"
Friday, September 14, 12-1:30 p.m.
Schaeffer Hall, room 140 |
Jim Wallis senses a profound hunger in America for a politics that appeals to our deepest hopes and values, that unites rather than divides. As an evangelical Christian, he shows how a full biblical faith can contribute to resolving the great moral and political issues of our times: Poverty, peace, security, abortion, care of the earth, immigration, and the rest.
About Jim Wallis:
•Raised in a Midwest Evangelical Protestant family
•Author of the New York Times bestseller, God's Politics: Why the Right Gets it Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It
•Editor of Sojourners magazine and head of Call to Renewal, a faith-based anti-poverty movement
•Appears regularly on radio and television programs such as Meet the Press, Hardball, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The
O'Reilly Factor, and National Public Radio, and on the op-ed pages of the nation's leading newspapers
•Teaches a course at Harvard University on "Faith, Politics, and Society"
•Lives in inner-city Washington, D.C., with his wife, Joy Carroll, and their sons, Luke (9) and Jack (4) |
SPONSOR: GENEVA CAMPUS MINISTRY; Co-sponsors: UI Lecture Committee, UI Political Science Department, UI Student Government, Congregational UCC, Faith UCC, First Baptist Church, First Mennonite
Church, First Presbyterian Church, First United Methodist Church, InterVarsity Graduate Christian Fellowship, New Life Community Church, Newman Catholic Student Center, Peace Christian Reformed Church, St. Andrew Presbyterian Church, St. Mary’s Church, St. Thomas More Church, Trinity Episcopal Church, Wesley Center, Zion Lutheran Church
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