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The Image of Faith in America -- with Chris Hedges

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Event Date

  • 4/3/2008   6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
    Please arrive early for registration

Location

  • World Affairs Council Auditorium

Address

  • 312 Sutter Street
    Second Floor
    San Francisco, California 94108
Speaker(s)
Chris Hedges, Senior Fellow, The Nation Institute

Chris Hedges was a foreign correspondent for nearly two decades for the New York Times and other newspapers, and is the bestselling author of American Fascists: War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; What Every Person Should Know About War; and Losing Moses on the Freeway. Hedges graduated from seminary at Harvard Divinity School. He is now a senior fellow at The Nation Institute. 

 

Event Details

Author of the bestselling book War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, Chris Hedges joins the Council to discuss his new book I Don’t Believe in Atheists and offers his views of the extreme sides of the religious spectrum in the United States. Hedges has spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans, and has reported from more than fifty countries. He was part of the New York Times team that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for the paper's coverage of global terrorism. He is also the recipient of the 2002 Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism.

 

This event is co-sponsored by the Graduate Theological Union.

 

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