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A Possible Method of Producing Embryonic-Type Stem Cells May Break Political Impasse
Experts Available for Interviews
Posted: Monday, June 20, 2005
A new scientific strategy for producing embryonic-type stem cells could provide a revolutionary way forward in the divisive national debate over stem cell research. The method, which scientists say can be tested within a year, may allow researchers to create the type of stem cells that embryonic stem cell advocates want -- stem cells that can produce every cell type in the body and that are genetically tailored to individual patients -- without having to create or destroy human embryos.  [Read More]
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The Latest Books from EPPC Scholars

Faith, Reason and the War Against JihadismEPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel's new book is essential reading in a time of momentous political decisions. Drawing on a quarter century of experience at the intersection of moral argument and public policy, he describes rigorously and clearly the threat posed by global jihadism and points a new direction for both public policy and interreligious dialogue, one that meets the challenge of jihadism forthrightly while creating the conditions for a less threatening, more mutually enriching encounter between Islam and the West.
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EPPC Resident Scholar James Bowman recounts the history of honor, noting that it is inseparable from the history of mankind. While honor has been disregarded or actively despised for three quarters of a century in the West, it is still essential to an understanding of the Islamic cultures of the Middle East and the sense of grievance they often foster against the West, and especially the United States.
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EPPC Fellow Christine Rosen writes a warm and affectionate memoir of her days as a school girl in a fundamentalist Christian school in St. Petersburg, Florida where "the Bible was our textbook," God the guide, and after entering the school gates, nothing was ever quite the same again.
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May 2009
Michael Cromartie
Faith Angle Conference

EPPC Vice President Michael Cromartie moderated a series of discussions in May at the semi-annual Faith Angle Conference sponsored by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life and held in Key West, Florida. Transcripts of the informative talks are now available online.

 Obama's Favorite Theologian? A Short Course on Reinhold Niebuhr  -- Wilfred McClay, a historian specializing in American intellectual history, offered an overview of Niebuhr's unique form of progressive Christianity and addressed ongoing debates about the influence of Niebuhr's work on 20th-century American politics and international affairs.

 Religion and Science: Conflict or Harmony? -- Francis S. Collins, the former director of the Human Genome Project, discussed why he believes religion and science are compatible and why the current conflict over evolution vs. faith, particularly in the evangelical community, is unnecessary.

 The Political Obligations of Catholics -- the Most Rev. Charles J. Chaput, archbishop of Denver and author of Render Unto Caesar: Serving the Nation by Living Our Catholic Beliefs in Political Life (2008), argues that Catholics should take an active, vocal and morally consistent role in public debates, particularly on issues such as abortion, the death penalty and other matters they consider central to social justice.