EVENT TRANSCRIPT: Mormonism and Democratic Politics
Are They Compatible?
By Michael Cromartie
Posted: Monday, June 11, 2007
EPPC Vice President Michael Cromartie moderated this discussion featuring Richard Bushman of Columbia University at the Pew Forum's biannual Faith Angle Conference on religion, politics and public life in May 2007. Mr. Bushamn addressed Mormonism and American politics.  [Read More]

EVENT TRANSCRIPT: God's Will
Iran's Polity and the Challenges of the Future
By Michael Cromartie
Posted: Monday, June 11, 2007
EPPC Vice President Michael Cromartie moderated this discussion featuring Ray Takeyh of the Council on Foreign Relations at the Pew Forum's biannual Faith Angle Conference on religion, politics and public life in May 2007. Mr. Takeyh shed light on the role religion plays in the complex power structure of the Islamic Republic of Iran.  [Read More]

EVENT TRANSCRIPT: Israel and the Future of Zionism
By Michael Cromartie
Posted: Friday, February 9, 2007
EPPC Vice President Michael Cromartie moderated this discussion in December 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 Peter Berkowitz, a Hoover Institution fellow, and Ari Shavit, a columnist for the Israeli paper Ha'aretz, offered a brief history of Zionism and argued for the continuing importance of the Zionist movement.  [Read More]

EVENT TRANSCRIPT: Religion in a Globalizing World
By Michael Cromartie
Posted: Friday, February 9, 2007
EPPC Vice President Michael Cromartie moderated this discussion in December 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 speaker Peter Berger, professor emeritus of religion, sociology and theology at Boston University, examined the globalization of religious pluralism and how the peaceful coexistence of different racial, ethnic and religious groups has become a global phenomenon.  [Read More]

EVENT TRANSCRIPT: Understanding Religion's Role in the 2006 Election
By Michael Cromartie
Posted: Friday, February 9, 2007
EPPC Vice President Michael Cromartie moderated this discussion in December 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 John Green, Pew Forum Senior Fellow, and American Enterprise Institute Resident Fellow Karlyn Bowman analyzed polling data to help journalists better understand the role religion played in the 2006 midterm election.  [Read More]

EVENT 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]

EVENT 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]

EVENT 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]

EVENT TRANSCRIPT: Believing Without Belonging
Just How Secular Is Europe?
By Michael Cromartie
Posted: Monday, April 3, 2006
In December 2005, EPPC Vice President Michael Cromartie moderated a series of discussions at the Pew Forum's semi-annual Faith Angle conference on religion, politics and public life. In this particular discussion led by Mr. Cromartie, conference speaker Grace Davie, who has a chair in the Sociology of Religion at the University of Exeter and is the director of the University's Centre for European Studies, challenged current perspectives on modern secularism in Europe and examined how Europeans view American religion.  [Read More]

EVENT 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]