From: Phil deHaan (dehp@calvin.edu)
Date: Mon Apr 14 2003 - 10:32:23 EDT
April14, 2003 == MEDIA ADVISORY
While faith-based efforts have seemingly stalled in both Congress and the
Senate, despite strong backing from President Bush, the White House remains
committed to the basic idea that many of society's problems could benefit from
the assistance of religious groups. And it vows to keep government assistance
to faith-based organizations on the legislative table.
So a late-April talk at Calvin College will be timely. On April 28, at 7:30
p.m., the Henry Institute for the Study of Christianity and Politics at Calvin
will host Tim Goeglein, Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Director
of the White House Office of Public Liaison, who speak on "Faith and the Public
Arena" for the school's annual Henry Lecture (both the Institute and the
Lecture are named for former Calvin professor and U.S. Congressman Paul
Henry).
Goeglein has worked in the public arena for nearly 15 years. For a decade, he
was first the Deputy Press Secretary and then Communications Director for U.S.
Senator Dan Coats of Indiana. An Indiana native, he began his career at
WKJG-NBC in Fort Wayne, producing their evening newscasts. During the
Bush-Cheney campaign, Goeglein served as the Coalitions Media Director. He
graduated from Indiana University, Bloomington with honors from the Ernie Pyle
School of Journalism.
In a recent interview with the Indiana University alumni magazine, Goeglein
credited his journalistic background for teaching him key lessons: "Communicate
big ideas clearly. Be patient with people. Be intrigued with people because
everyone has a special story. Do not make political differences personal
differences. Find commonalities and move forward."
Those lessons were put to the test, he said, just days after September 11 when
Goeglein organized the memorial service at the Washington National Cathedral,
expressing a moral and religious response that included Jewish, Islamic and
Christian faiths.
Contact Corwin Smidt, director of the Henry Institute, at 616-526-6233
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