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TRANSCRIPT: America and Islam After Bush
By Michael Cromartie
Posted: Sunday, March 1, 2009
Vali Nasr, author of the 2006 book, The Shia Revival, surveyed the geo-political landscape of today's Middle East during this talk at the Pew Forum's semi-annual Faith Angle Conference on religion, politics and public life held in Key West, Florida, in December 2008.  [Read More]
TRANSCRIPT: Religion and Race
A Historical and Contemporary Perspective
By Michael Cromartie
Posted: Sunday, March 1, 2009
Eddie S.Glaude Jr., author of In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America, discussed religion and race in America in a talk from the Pew Forum's semi-annual Faith Angle Conference on religion, politics and public life in Key West, Fla., in December 2008.  [Read More]
TRANSCRIPT: A Post-Election Look at Religious Voters in the 2008 Election
By Michael Cromartie
Posted: Sunday, March 1, 2009
John Green, a senior fellow in religion and American politics at the Pew Forum, discussed how a small change overall in voting behavior among religious groups had a big impact at the ballot box at the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion and Public Life's semi-annual Faith Angle Conference on religion, politics and public life in Key West, Fla., in December 2008.  [Read More]
TRANSCRIPT: Is There A Culture War?
By Michael Cromartie
Posted: Tuesday, July 18, 2006
EPPC Vice President Michael Cromartie moderated this discussion in May 2006 at the Pew Forum's semi-annual Faith Angle conference on religion, politics and public life in Key West, Florida. In this presentation, conference speakers James Davison Hunter, author of the widely acclaimed Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America, and long-time critic Alan Wolfe, author of One Nation, After All, discussed whether America really is polarized by a "culture war" over key moral issues like abortion and homosexuality.   [Read More]
TRANSCRIPT: How and Why Muhammad Made a Difference
By Michael Cromartie
Posted: Sunday, July 16, 2006
EPPC Vice President Michael Cromartie moderated this discussion in May 2006 at the Pew Forum's Faith Angle conference on religion, politics and public life in Key West, Florida. The conference speaker, Michael Cook, is widely considered among the most outstanding scholars on the history of Islam. In this presentation, Mr. Cook vividly described the merging of politics and religion in the life of Muhammad and how this legacy shapes the Muslim world today.   [Read More]
TRANSCRIPT: Faith, Politics & Progressives
A Conversation with John Podesta
By Michael Cromartie
Posted: Wednesday, April 5, 2006
On April 26, 2005, EPPC Vice President Michael Cromartie led a discussion with John Podesta, President and CEO, Center for American Progress and former Chief of Staff to President William J. Clinton, at the second Pew Forum Lunch meeting. The conversation focused on ways to bring the faith of religious progressives into the media and public life.  [Read More]
TRANSCRIPT: Spirit Wars
American Religion in Progressive Politics
By Michael Cromartie
Posted: Sunday, February 12, 2006
In December 2005, EPPC Vice-President Michael Cromartie moderated a series of discussions at the Pew Forum's biannual Faith Angle conference on religion, politics and public life. In this particular discussion led by Mr. Cromartie, conference speaker Leigh Eric Schmidt, a professor of religion at Princeton University, analyzed the historical connections between religious liberalism and progressive politics and the current national debate on religion in politics.   [Read More]
TRANSCRIPT: The Biology Wars
The Religion, Science and Education Controversy
By Michael Cromartie
Posted: Sunday, February 12, 2006
In December 2005, EPPC Vice-President Michael Cromartie moderated a series of discussions at the Pew Forum's biannual Faith Angle conference on religion, politics and public life. In this particular discussion led by Mr. Cromartie, conference speaker Edward J. Larson, a professor of Law and American History at the University of Georgia, viewed the controversy over teaching evolution in American public schools from an historical perspective -- from the Scopes trial of the 1920s to the intelligent design legal battles of today.  [Read More]
TRANSCRIPT: The Islamic Paradox
Religion and Democracy in the Middle East
By Michael Cromartie
Posted: Sunday, February 12, 2006
In May 2005, EPPC Vice-President Michael Cromartie moderated a series of discussions at the Pew Forum's biannual Faith Angle conference on religion, politics and public life. In this particular discussion led by Mr. Cromartie, conference speaker Reuel Marc Gerecht, a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a former Middle East specialist for the CIA, argued that Shiite clerics and Sunni fundamentalists may hold the keys to spreading democracy in the Middle East.   [Read More]
TRANSCRIPT: Myths of the Modern Mega-Church
By Michael Cromartie
Posted: Sunday, February 12, 2006
In May 2005, EPPC Vice-President Michael Cromartie moderated a series of discussions at the Pew Forum's biannual Faith Angle conference on religion, politics and public life. In this particular discussion led by Mr. Cromartie, conference speaker Rick Warren, pastor of the largest church in America and author of The Purpose Driven Life, addressed misconceptions many Americans have about mega-churches. He also discussed current trends in the evangelical movement, and some of his views on hot-button political and cultural issues.   [Read More]
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New Books
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.