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Abolition and its Cultured Despisers
Posted: Friday, March 30, 2007
The clamoring for apologies and reparations for slavery over recent weeks -- stoked by steady coverage from the BBC -- made Tuesday's Westminster debacle almost inevitable. The greater sadness, though, is that the bitter recriminations deprecate the decency and valor of what Britain accomplished by ending its part in human trafficking.
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American Independence, British Style
Churchill on July 4, 1918.
Posted: Wednesday, July 5, 2006
On July 4, 1918, Winston Churchill chaired a meeting of the Anglo-Saxon Fellowship, an annual gathering to mark the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. That year, though, they had a more pressing reason to celebrate: the arrival of a million American soldiers in Europe to revive the Allied cause against Germany. Churchill, then serving as secretary of state for war, sought from the Declaration "inspiration and comfort to cheer our hearts and fortify and purify our resolution and our comradeship."
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Among Evangelicals, a Transformation
By Peter Wehner
Posted: Thursday, January 10, 2008
Among the fondest hopes of liberalism is that the evangelical movement will experience a "crack-up" that will leave it impotent and disengaged from politics -- those hopes are bound to be dashed. The evangelical movement is not experiencing a "crack-up." But it is undergoing a transformation -- one that is far-reaching and will profoundly affect Christianity and American politics.
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Anonymous No More
By Michael Cromartie
Posted: Friday, November 1, 1996
Michael Cromartie talks with anonymous-no-more author Joe Klein about his fictional political tale, Primary Colors.
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Anti-Americanism and the BBC
Posted: Friday, May 18, 2007
Restrained praise is in order for the BBC's Radio 4 series on anti-Americanism called "Death to America.." The three-part program examined the hatreds toward America that are bubbling over in France, Venezuela, Egypt and beyond.
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Can Civilization Survive Without God?
Christopher Hitchens (a prominent atheist and columnist for Vanity Fair) and his brother Peter (a well-regarded Christian author) recently squared off in a debate over whether or not civilization can survive without God. This discussion was hosted by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life and moderated by EPPC Vice President Michael Cromartie. During the debate the brothers discussed morality, the science and origin of moral conscience, and the affect religious, specifically Christian, morality has on a civilization. Watch a clip and read a summary of the event here.
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For more than ten years, EPPC Vice President Michael Cromartie's Faith Angle Forum has brought together a select group of nationally respected journalists and distinguished scholars for in-depth discussions of some of the most crucial issues facing Americans today. Twice yearly, in South Beach, Miami, the Forum holds a two-day conference to discuss these important dimensions of our public life in a serious fashion, miles removed from Washington's ideological battlefields. Read more about the work of the Faith Angle Forum here.
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