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Friday, February 26, 2010
The City Club of San Diego 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 City Club of San Diego Proudly Presents:
Garrison Keillor
Host & Legendary Star of Prairie Home Companion
Friday, March 12, 2010
The City Club of San Diego Proudly Presents:
General Michael Lehnert
United States Marine Corps General
Speaking on: “Guantanamo and the Lessons of History”
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Friday, February 26, 2010
The City Club of San Diego 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
San Diego Hall of Champions
2131 Pan American Plaza - Balboa Park
Members, $20; Non-members, $40
Phone Reservations: 619-687-3580
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Jim Wallis – Biographical Brief
 Jim Wallis is a best-selling 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 City Club of San Diego & Point Loma Nazarene University Proudly Present:
Garrison Keillor – the Host & Legendary Star of Prairie Home Companion
Brown Chapel – PLNU Campus
3900 Lomaland Drive – take Catalina Blvd. To Lomaland
Ticket Information – www.pointloma.edu/keillor
Proceeds benefit San Diego Police Foundation`s SafetyNet™ Cyber Safety Program and the
PLNU Writers Symposium
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Garrison Keillor – Biographical Brief
Garrison Keillor is an author, storyteller, humorist, and creator of the weekly radio show A Prairie Home Companion. The show began in 1974 as a live variety show on Minnesota Public Radio.
In the 1980s A Prairie Home Companion became a pop culture phenomenon, with millions of Americans listening to Keillor`s folksy tales of life in the fictional Midwestern town of Lake Wobegon, where (in Keillor`s words) "the women are strong, the men are good looking, and all of the children are above average." Keillor ended the show in 1987, and 1989 began a similar new radio show titled American Radio Company of the Air. In 1993 he returned the show to its original name. Keillor also created the syndicated daily radio feature A Writer`s Almanac in 1993.
Keillor is a graduate of the University of Minnesota (1966), and is an acclaimed writer, having written for The New Yorker and other periodicals of note. He is the author of several books, including "Happy to Be Here" (1990), "Leaving Home" (1992), "Lake Wobegon Days" (1995), and "Good Poems for Hard Times" (2005).
His radio show inspired a 2006 movie, A Prairie Home Companion, written by and starring Keillor and directed by Robert Altman.
Keillor signature sign-off on The Writer`s Almanac is "Be well, do good work, and keep in touch." |
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Friday, March 12, 2010
The City Club and the National Conflict Resolution Center Proudly Present:
United States Marine Corps General Michael Lehnert – American Hero
Speaking on: “Guantanamo and the Lessons of History”
12-Noon Luncheon
Holiday Inn on the Bay - Harborside Room
Members $30, non-members $45
Phone Reservations: 619-687-3580
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Biographical Brief – General Michael Lehnert
General Michael Lehnert is former Commanding General, Marine Corps Installations West. He took command of 2nd Force Service Support Group (FSSG) in July 2001 and in January 2002, and was deployed to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba as Commander of the Joint Task Force. The mission of the Task Force was to construct and operate the detention facilities for Taliban and Al Queda detainees. While in command of the detention facility, he endeavored to ensure that the provisions of the Geneva Convention were applied. The Geneva Conventions consist of four treaties and three additional protocols that set the standards in international law for humanitarian treatment of the victims of war.
“Protected persons are entitled, in all circumstances, to respect for their persons, their honour, their family rights, their religious convictions and practices, and their manners and customs. They shall at all times be humanely treated, and shall be protected especially against all acts of violence or threats thereof and against insults and public curiosity…Without prejudice to the provisions relating to their state of health, age and sex, all protected persons shall be treated with the same consideration by the Party to the conflict in whose power they are, without any adverse distinction based, in particular, on race, religion or political opinion.”
In the face of opposition from Washington, General Lehnert invited the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to visit Guantanamo and to advise on conditions of detention, appoint a Muslim chaplain and create an ethos of human decency. Lehnert’s commitment to fair process in Guantanamo was truly inspiring and is consistent with his earlier work on peacekeeping and conflict resolution.
In addition to his efforts at Guantanamo, General Lehnert headed a team in 1994 and 1995 that wrote the Joint Task Force Commanders Handbook for Peacekeeping Operations, which is still in regular use today. After reading it, Colin Powell, then Chairman of the Joint Staff directed that all doctrine be rewritten to use the style that Lehnert had adopted. He used quotes, interviews and vignettes to write the handbook. They also collected all available peacekeeping and conflict resolution after action reports they could find anywhere in the world and interviewed a lot of senior people who had been on UN missions. All of this took place as a consequence of the failure of the UN and US mission in Somalia that culminated in Black Hawk Down. After that, Senator Carl Levin appropriated money and directed that something be done to improve our peacekeeping and conflict resolution skills. Lehnert took the lead in developing the new handbook and a joint electronic library that other countries and academics could access.
Author Karen Greenberg, recently published a detailed account of General Michael Lehnert and his role at Guantanamo, in her book titled, The Least Worst Place: Guantanamo’s First 100 Days.
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