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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><st1:date Month="2" Day="11" Year="2008"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Monday, February 11, 2008</B></st1:date><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">, </B><st1:time Hour="19" Minute="0"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">7:00 p.m.</B></st1:time><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"> <o:p></o:p></B></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">With the declining political influence of the Religious Right, what is the better way for Christians to engage politics?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If neither secularism nor withdrawing from politics altogether is the answer, what is the way forward? <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>How can faith communities learn the principles of faithful political witness and involvement on the basis of the <st1:place><st1:PlaceType>kingdom</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName>God</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>? <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">These questions are the basis of <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Jim Wallis’s</B> important new book, <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">The Great Awakening: Reviving Faith and Politics in a Post-Religious Right </I></B><st1:country-region><st1:place><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">America</I></B></st1:place></st1:country-region><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">.</I></B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In it, he articulates a newly emerged strategic spiritual social action plan to successfully attack a wide range of social issues—from international poverty to global warming--based upon linking evangelical zeal with liberal social commitment.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Jim Wallis discusses this new strategy at <st1:PersonName>Cambridge Forum</st1:PersonName>, Monday, February 11 at <st1:time Hour="19" Minute="0">7 p.m.</st1:time><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Marshall Ganz</B> of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government moderates the public discussion following Wallis’s opening remarks.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">“I am grateful that Jim Wallis has decided to write this book and has chosen this moment to do so.” <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Jim Wallis</B>, founder of Sojourners, a global faith and justice network, also wrote the New York Times bestseller, <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">God’s Politics: Why the Right Gets it Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It.<o:p></o:p></I></FONT></FONT></P>
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