Global Leadership Forum
The Global Leadership Forum is an annual conference run by the Center for Global Education that brings people of faith and global leaders together to wrestle with the toughest international issues while building relationships. It encourages participants to experience for themselves the full complexity and sovereignty of God through the unique reflections of the world-class participants. The event has been held in churches and universities across the United States and has served as a resource to people of faith interested in engaging the complexity of the world around them.
The 2009 and 2010 Global Leadership Forum was thematically focused on "Evangelicals and Muslims: Conversations on Respect, Reconciliation, and Religious Freedom." It was co-sponsored with the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University.
The 2008 Global Leadership Forum was entitled The "New" Evangelical: Profile, Policy, Practice." It featured three conversations among leading evangelical thinkers and representatives from other faith traditions about the opportunities and challenges that face American evangelicalism. Participants discussed the characteristics of the "new" evangelicalism and how it is defining, and being defined by, global trends. The first conversation featured Mark Galli, Jay Hein, and Dr. Michael Lindsay, who discussed the characteristics of the "new" evangelical and how the definition has changed over time. The second conversation featured Colleen Carroll Campbell, George Ward, and Suhail Khan, who considered the policy priorities of the "new evangelical, and the impact those priorities might have on November's presidential election. The event concluded with a conversation between Nicole Bibbins Sedaca, Rev. Paul-Gordon Chandler, and Bethany Hanke Hoang, who explored how these ideas are practically lived out in a world suspicious of evangelicals. What emerged from GLF 2008 was a 'new' focus for Evangelicals on finding practical policy solutions to bring about greater social justice, based on an absolute and unchanging rock-solid belief in a loving God. More information on GLF 2008 can be found here.
The September 2007 theme was "Stewarding Christian Citizenship: Heavenly, Global, Local." It's keynote speakers were Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and Ambassador Robert Seiple, who gave their perspective on how their heavenly citizenship affects their public service. Other speakers included Michael Gerson, Brady Anderson, Ahmed Younis, and Hadia Mubarak. More information on GLF 2007 can be found here.
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