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April 25, 2008

PHOTOS OF THE WEEK


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Belmont Hosts Two Best-Selling Authors and Celebrates Undergraduate Research
James Loewen, author of 2008-09 First Year Seminar common book Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, spoke on campus yesterday as part of the Belmont Undergraduate Research Symposium (BURS). There were 220 students who participated in more than 135 presentations yesterday in 32 concurrent sessions across campus in the afternoon and evening, representing research in more than two dozen subjects across the academic spectrum from Biochemistry and Molecular Biology to English and History to Accounting and Classical Voice.

In an evening talk at Troutt Theater, Loewen encouraged students to use research to ask good questions and then allow that research to create change for a better world. Click here for more on BURS and Loewen's visit.

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Two hours later, best-selling author and public theologian Jim Wallis led a conversation on ethics and public life next door in Belmont Heights Baptist Church. Wallis' 2005 book, God’s Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It, was a New York Times bestseller. His newest book, The Great Awakening: Reviving Faith & Politics in a Post-Religious Right America, was the primary subject of last night's lecture.

Wallis noted that it will take a revival of faith to spark major social changes in poverty, war, the environment and other critical global issues. "Our choice is between hope and cynicism," he said. "Cynicism becomes a buffer against commitment. Hope, however, is a choice you make, a decision because of faith."

Nashville singer-songwriters and Grammy-award winners Ashley Cleveland (below center) and Marcus Hummon (right) opened Wallis’ lecture with a 30-minute set in the round, accompanied by guitarist Kenny Greenberg (left). For more on this story, click here.
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