Award-winning Journalist Chris Hedges to Lecture at Princeton Seminary

Princeton, NJ, October 25, 2006–Chris Hedges, senior fellow at The Nation Institute in New York City, visiting lecturer in the Council of Humanities, and the Anschutz Distinguished Fellow at Princeton University, will give a lecture titled “The Christian Right and the War on America” at Princeton Theological Seminary on Wednesday, November 1 at 7:00 p.m. in the Main Lounge of the Mackay Campus Center on the Seminary campus. The lecture is free and open to the public. 

Hedges earned a Master of Divinity degree from Harvard Divinity School, and then was a foreign correspondent in El Salvador, the Middle East, and the Balkans. He worked for The New York Times for fifteen years and was part of the team that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for coverage of global terrorism. He also won the 2002 Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism. Hedges is the author of What Every Person Should Know About War (2003), Losing Moses on the Freeway: The 10 Commandments in America (2006), and War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning (2003), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. The New York Times Book Review described War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning as “a brilliant, thoughtful, timely and unsettling book...it will rattle jingoists, pacifists, moralists, nihilists, politicians and professional soldiers equally...

“For many years Chris Hedges has reported courageously and honestly to the American public from such war zones as El Salvador and Sarajevo,” said the Seminary’s Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Christianity and Society Richard Fenn. “Now he calls our attention to dangers far closer to home: the growth of what he calls a fascist movement in the United States on the Christian Right.”

The lecture is hosted by Princeton Seminary’s History Department. For more information, contact Professor Richard Fenn at richard.fenn@ptsem.edu or visit www.ptsem.edu.