Candidates Must Learn From History

Niels Nielsen Jr.

TOPIC-Candidates Must Learn From History Guest Opportunity: Niels Nielsen Jr. – Professor of Philosophy and Religious Thought & Author of “God in the Obama Era – Presidents Religion from George Washington to Barack Obama” The 2012 Presidential election will set the course for economic and domestic politics as well as international relations in the next four years. Present challenges, both national and international, relate to our nation’s historical past, as well as to earlier presidential election campaigns. Will the nation’s economy recover and prosper?

Meet Niels Nielsen Jr. BA from George Pepperdine University (Los Angeles) Graduated Summa cum Laude from Yale University Divinity School Earned a PhD. from Yale University in Contemporary Theology Taught at Yale College and Rice University Founding chairman of the Department of Relgious Studies at Rice University Member American Academy of Religion, American Philosophical Society, Secretary American Society for the Study of Religion (past executive secretary). Listed in Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in Religion in America. Visiting Professor of Humanities, Colorado School of Mines Member St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, Houston, Texas, ordained deacon, elder, church school teacher.

Date Recorded: 9/25/2012