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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.
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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.
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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.
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The Latest Books from EPPC Scholars
 EPPC 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. [ More information] [ Purchase] 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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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.
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