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"Center Conversations," edited by senior editor Carol Griffith, are based on conferences and seminars related to various Center projects. To receive a hard copy of "Center Conversations" please join as an associate of the Center by going to the Support EPPC page. |
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Political Islam
A Conversation with Gilles Kepel and Jeffrey Goldberg
Posted: Monday, July 28, 2003
In December 2002, twenty-five print and broadcast journalists gathered at the Pier House in Key West, Florida, at the invitation of the Ethics and Public Policy Center for a two dayseminar called "Toward an Understanding of Religion and International Conflict." The session from which this "Conversation" is drawn featured Gilles Kepel, author of Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam, with a response by New Yorker writer Jeffrey Goldberg.
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War in Iraq: Is it Just?
Christopher Hitchens, William Galston, and George Weigel
Posted: Friday, May 30, 2003
In a seminar on February 6, 2003, three prominent commentators offered differing views on whether the U.S. war in Iraq-then on the near horizon-could be pronounced a "just war." Journalist Christopher Hitchens says the United States has a moral debt as well as a political responsibility to intervene. Political philosopher William Galston takes issue with the notion of "preventive" war. And theologian George Weigel looks at three just war criteria that he says have framed the public debate in the United States. Michael Cromartie is vice president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
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Religion and Terrorism
A Conversation with Bruce Hoffman and Jeffrey Goldberg
Posted: Monday, January 6, 2003
In January 2002, two dozen journalists gathered at the Pier House in Key West, Florida, at the invitation of the Ethics and Public Policy Center for a two-day seminar. Its purpose was to enhance journalistic understanding of current religious and cultural issues. The session from which this "Conversation" is drawn featured terrorism expert Bruce Hoffman of the RAND Corporation. What follows is an edited version of Dr. Hoffman’s remarks, a brief response by Jeffrey effrey Goldberg Goldberg, and the ensuing general discussion as moderated by Center vice president Michael Cromartie.
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Islam: A Primer
A Conversation with Roy Mottahedeh and Jay Tolson
Posted: Sunday, September 8, 2002
In January 2002 a group of journalists gathered at the Pier House in Key West, Florida, at the invitation of the Ethics and Public Policy Center for a two-day seminar. Its purpose was to enhance journalistic understanding of current religious and cultural issues. The session from which this "Conversation" is drawn featured Harvard historian Roy Mottahedeh, with a response by journalist Jay Tolson. Their remarks here are followed by an edited version of the ensuing general discussion, moderated by Center vice president Michael Cromartie. A seminar session featuring Samuel P. Huntington appeared as "Center Conversation" 14, and a session with Bruce Hoffman is forthcoming. These seminars for journalists are made possible by a generous grant from the Pew Charitable Trusts.
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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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| May 2009 |
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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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