MEDIA RELEASES

Dominican University’s Siena Center will present a lecture on “Truth- Telling in Christian America: Globalization, Poverty and the Environment” at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, October 16. The lecture, the third installment in the Siena Center’s ongoing series on “Truth and Consequences,” will be presented by best-selling author Brian McLaren in the auditorium of the Priory Campus, 7200 W. Division Street, River Forest.

McLaren will examine how religious resources can offer a critical base from which to see and tell the truth about global poverty and environmental concerns. McLaren’s work has been covered by Time magazine, which listed him as one America’s 25 most influential evangelicals, and he has appeared on Larry King Live and Nightline. He is the author of the recently published A Search for What Makes Sense as well as the best-selling A New Kind of Christian trilogy (A New Kind of Christian, 2001, which received Christianity Today’s Award of Merit; The Story We Find Ourselves, 2003; and The Last Word and the Word After That, 2005).

McLaren is co-founder of Cedar Ridge Community Church, an innovative, nondenominational church formed in the Baltimore-Washington DC area in 1982 for which he served as pastor until 2006. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English from the University of Maryland.

The fee for this program is $10. For more information, please contact the Siena Center at (708) 714-9105 or visit the website at www.siena.dom.edu.

Dominican University established the Siena Center to engage the critical issues of church and society in the light of faith and scholarship. The center was named for St. Catherine of Siena, a 14th-century laywoman who worked for the reform of the church and justice in the world. Her passionate devotion to the central issues of church and society inspires the work of the center in its schedule of lectures, symposia, workshops, retreats, research and seminars.