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Wednesday, February 17, 2010
The Denver Forum Proudly Presents:
Jim Wallis
One of America’s Great Prophetic Voices
Author of and speaking on: “Rediscovering Values: On Wall Street, Main Street, and Your Street – A Moral Compass for the New Economy”
Thursday, March 4, 2010
The Denver Forum Proudly Presents:
Peter Hessler
Writer for The New Yorker
Author of and speaking on: “Country Driving: A Journey Through China: From Farm to Factory”
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
The Denver Forum Proudly Presents:
Christine Brennan
USA Today Columnist and ABC-Sports/ESPN Commentator
Author of and Speaking on: "Best Seat in the House"
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Wednesday, February 17, 2010
The Denver Forum Proudly Presents:
Jim Wallis of Sojourners – One of America’s Great Prophetic Voices
Author of and speaking on: “Rediscovering Values: On Wall Street, Main Street, and Your Street – A Moral Compass for the New Economy”
12-Noon Luncheon
Oxford Hotel -- Sage Room
Members: $30, Non-Members, $45
Phone Reservations: 303-832-9030
Event Sponsor:
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Jim Wallis – Biographical Brief
 Jim Wallis is a bestselling author, public theologian, speaker, preacher, and international commentator on religion and public life, faith and politics. His latest book is "Rediscovering Values: On Wall Street, Main Street, and Your Street – A Moral Compass for the New Economy.”
The previous book was “The Great Awakening: Reviving Faith & Politics in a Post–Religious Right America.” Before that he wrote, “God`s Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn`t Get It”, which was on The New York Times bestseller list for 4 months.
He is President and Chief Executive Officer of Sojourners; where he is editor-in-chief of Sojourners magazine, whose combined print and electronic media have a readership of more than 250,000 people. Wallis speaks at more than 200 events a year and his columns appear in major newspapers, including The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and both Time and Newsweek online. He regularly appears on radio and television, including shows like Meet the Press, the Daily Show with Jon Stewart, the O`Reilly Factor, and is a frequent guest on the news programs of CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, Fox, and National Public Radio.
He has taught at Harvard`s Divinity School and Kennedy School of Government on "Faith, Politics, and Society." He has written eight books, including: “Faith Works”, “The Soul of Politics”, “Who Speaks for God?” and “The Call to Conversion.”
Jim Wallis was raised in a Midwest evangelical family. As a teenager, his questioning of the racial segregation in his church and community led him to the black churches and neighborhoods of inner-city Detroit. He spent his student years involved in the civil rights and antiwar movements at Michigan State University. While at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Illinois, Jim and several other students started a small magazine and community with a Christian commitment to social justice which has now grown into a national faith-based organization.
In 1979, Time magazine named Wallis one of the "50 Faces for America`s Future." Jim lives in inner-city Washington, D.C. with his wife, Joy Carroll, one of the first women ordained in the Church of England and author of "Beneath the Cassock: The Real-life Vicar of Dibley" and their sons, Luke (9) and Jack (4). He is a Little League baseball coach.
Visit Jim Wallis and Sojourners at their website www.Sojo.net and read his daily blog at www.GodsPolitics.com.
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Thursday, March 4, 2010
The Denver Forum Proudly Presents:
Peter Hessler – Writer for The New Yorker
Author of and speaking on: “Country Driving: A Journey Through China: From Farm to Factory”
12-Noon Luncheon
Oxford Hotel
1600 17th Street
Sage Room
Members: $30, Non-Members, $45
Phone Reservations: 303-832-9030
Event Sponsor:
To Register Click Here
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Peter Hessler – Biographical Brief
 Peter Hessler is a staff writer at The New Yorker, where he served as Beijing correspondent from 2000-2007, and is also a contributing writer for National Geographic. He is the author of RIVER TOWN, which won the Kiriyama Book Prize, and ORACLE BONES, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. He won the 2008 National Magazine Award for excellence in reporting.
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Wednesday, June 23, 2010
The Denver Forum Proudly Presents:
Christine Brennan – USA Today Columnist and ABC-Sports/ESPN Commentator
Author of and Speaking on: "Best Seat in the House"
12-Noon Luncheon
Oxford Hotel
1600 17th Street
Sage Room
Members: $30, Non-Members, $45
Phone Reservations: 303-832-9030
Event Sponsor:
To register for this event please click here.
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Christine Brennan - Biographical Brief
Journalist Christine Brennan - USA Today sports columnist and ABC/ESPN television sports analyst - is a leading voice on the Olympics, international sports, women’s sports and other sports issues.
Brennan, a staff writer at The Washington Post from 1984-96, was an on-air commentator for ABC News and ESPN television during the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, breaking the news of the pairs figure skating scandal at the Games. She also worked for ABC News during the 1996 Summer Games in Atlanta, the 1998 Winter Games in Nagano and the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.
Brennan has appeared on a variety of network and cable shows over the past decade, including ESPN`s SportsCenter, Nightline, Good Morning America, World News Tonight and NBC`s Today show. A commentator on National Public Radio`s Morning Edition, Brennan appears regularly on ESPN Radio and WMAL Radio in Washington, D.C.
Her sports commentaries appear on-line at usatoday.com. Brennan, who joined USA Today as a columnist in 1997, became the first woman to cover the Washington Redskins in 1985 as a staff writer at The Washington Post. At the Post, she covered the Olympics and international sports, reporting from many nations, including Cuba and the former Soviet Union. Brennan has covered every Olympics since the 1984 Los Angeles Games. Prior to joining the Post, Brennan was the first woman sports writer at The Miami Herald, where she worked from 1981-84.
The author of four books, Brennan has won the Women`s Sports Foundation`s journalism award four times, and her work has been featured in various sports anthologies. Her 1998 book "Edge of Glory" won an Ohioana Library Association book award. In 1993, she was named the Capital Press Women`s "Woman of Achievement." She recently was named one of the top 10 sports columnists in the category of the nation`s largest newspapers by the Associated Press Sports Editors for 2001.
A native of Toledo, Ohio, Brennan was inducted into the Ohio Women`s Hall of Fame in 1995. She graduated from Ottawa Hills High School in 1976. In 1988, Brennan was elected the first president of the Association for Women in Sports Media. As president of the nationwide organization, she initiated a scholarship-internship program for college-age women that now honors six students annually. Brennan received undergraduate and master`s degrees in journalism from Northwestern University in 1980 and 1981, respectively. She lives in Washington, D.C.
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