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Pat Suhrcke, Director
(617) 495-2727  
email: Public Events@cambridgeforum.org                            
Press Release
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FAITH AND POLITICS AFTER THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT ERA

Monday, February 11, 2008, 7:00 p.m.
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With the declining political influence of the Religious Right, what is the better way for Christians to engage politics? If neither secularism nor withdrawing from politics altogether is the answer, what is the way forward? How can faith communities learn the principles of faithful political witness and involvement on the basis of the kingdom of God? These questions are the basis of Jim Wallis’s important new book, The Great Awakening: Reviving Faith and Politics in a Post-Religious Right America. 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.

Jim Wallis discusses this new strategy at Cambridge Forum, Monday, February 11 at 7 p.m. Marshall Ganz of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government moderates the public discussion following Wallis’s opening remarks.

Former president, Jimmy Carter, writes in his introduction: “I am grateful that Jim Wallis has decided to write this book and has chosen this moment to do so.” Jim Wallis, founder of Sojourners, a global faith and justice network, also wrote the New York Times bestseller, God’s Politics: Why the Right Gets it Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It. 
Cambridge Forums are free and open to the public. Book signing will follow 
program. Open discussion follows speaker presentation. Events are recorded 
for public radio broadcast. CDs and tapes are available.  Call 617-495-2727.  
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