The church and for the festival by georgia power, bill and king at kelly and the estate of ralph. We are blessed once again to host such celebrated authors at United Methodist church which has been made possible by the generosity of bob and jean faircrop and substrate bank. Many of you have already watched on deck with eric larsen but we suspect today you are seeking your claims around chippewa squares as you choose among the dozens of renowned writers who have published outstanding books this year. We extend special thanks to our members and individual donors him make these events possible. If you would like to lend your support we welcome your donations and provided few bucks for books buckets. At the door. Please turn your cellphones off and there will be no flash photography. The question and answer portion of this morning we will ask you to line up down the central iowa, there will be a volunteer with the microphone end you will ask your questions at that point. After the presenta
48 hours every weekend with top nonfiction books and authors. Booktv. Org. The 78th annual anisfieldwolf book awards that recognized books that have made important contributions to our understanding of racism and our appreciation of the rich diversity of human cultures is next on booktv. This is about an hour, 40 minutes. [applause] thank you. Thank you. Good evening, everyone. Good evening. You know, i love coming to cleveland for this annual event. I look forward to it, i enjoy every minute of it. , and it just grows and grouse. Thank you for your loyalty grows. Thank you for your loyalty, thank you for your support, and thank you for all your enthusiasm. Give it up to yourselves for being such a great audience. Ms. [applause] you know, every time i think about this prize, i think a poet, a poet in the 1930s who happened to be a white woman endows one of the first, certainly, if not the first prizes in celebration of what today we would call excellence and diversity. I mean, what an
We are natural partners. Decides United States to other countries work closely with the vatican . Yes, peter. 179 countries have diplomatic relations and 30 of them are islamic countries. What kind of work today due . Well the islamic countries any of them are trying to work with the oecg promote interreligious dialogue and find solutions to radical islam. Many of the secular European Countries are historic monarchies and have had relationship with the holy c or centuries. The latin america, a strong number of catholics in america and the intense social issues in the church deeply involved in is a very strong relationship. In your view ambassador renny has the vatican ever overstepped its bounds as a religious organization into the political . Well, i probably shouldnt answer some of the issues that came up in the two bush campaigns in United States that were highly controversial about the intersection of the elegy in politics. My focus is the diplomat is to show how the oecg and inter
Place. Id start with that and then find out why you cant get on public wifi in this building. Thank you. I want to thank professor hendricks and marc lamont hill, importantly want to thank all of you for attending here today your participation is then cached in a 10 fantastic manner. Thank you so much. If you want to get a copy of these discussions, there will be books outside a little bit later. So that is available and also very quickly we will be doing this in the book signing room. And so finally the reading series is in the auditorium next door in the Edison Jackson and they will go to the front desk and it lets you now. You can get your book signed. Next from the National Black writers conference, in brooklyn, a panel on black literature. [inaudible conversations] without further delay, ladies and a woman, brothers and sisters, those of you who are standing and not idle, those of you engaged in great conversations, please Pay Attention and welcome our panel and the moderator will
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