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TRANSCRIPT: The Religion Factor in the 2008 Election
By Michael Cromartie
Posted: Wednesday, January 23, 2008
John Green, author of The Faith Factor: How Religion Influences American Elections, analyzed recent surveys and suggested that the line dividing more observant and less observant voters - so pronounced in the 2004 election - may be blurring during this talk at the Pew Forum's biannual Faith Angle Conference on religion, politics and public life held in Key West, Florida, in December, 2007.
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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.
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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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What is an "Evangelical"?
A thoughtful look at a complicated notion
Mark Noll, professor at Wheaton College, delivered a lecture on "Understanding American Evangelicals" at EPPC's 2003 conference in Key West, Florida. He provides the history of evangelical movements, discusses the number of American evangelicals, and takes the measure of evangelical hymns. An elegant and eloquent presentation for those curious about what it means to be an evangelical.
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