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| Evangelicalism and American Life |
| Publication Date: September 10, 1999 |
| Posted: Friday, January 27, 2012 |
| In September 1999 a group of journalists gathered at the Black Point Inn in Prouts Neck, Maine, at the invitation of the Ethics and Public Policy Center for a two-day seminar. |
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| Islam and the Prospects for Democracy |
| Publication Date: October 20, 2003 |
| Posted: Monday, October 20, 2003 |
| This issue of Center Conversations draws on four seminars with leading Muslim scholars and leaders held by EPPC's Islam and American Democracy project from 2002-2003. |
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| Evangelicals, Islam, and Humanitarian Aid |
| Publication Date: May 30, 2003 |
| Posted: Friday, May 30, 2003 |
| In May 2003, some thirty representatives of humanitarian organizations, journalists, and policymakers met at the Ethics and Public Policy Center to ponder the role of evangelical relief organizations in post-war Iraq. The remarks of the main speaker -- Lamin Sanneh of Yale University -- are followed here by an edited version of the ensuing discussion. |
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| Iraq: Making Ethnic Peace After Saddam |
| Publication Date: January 15, 2003 |
| Posted: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 |
| On January 15, 2003, two experts on Iraq spoke about the prevention of ethnic conflict after the expected elimination of Saddam Hussein’s regime through military action. Brandeis professor Kanan Makiya is a leader of the Iraqi opposition, and Patric Clawson is deputy director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. |
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| Hindu Nationalism vs. Islamic Jihad: Religious Militancy in South Asia |
| Publication Date: June 10, 2002 |
| Posted: Monday, June 10, 2002 |
| On June 10, 2002, the Ethics and Public Policy Center sponsored a conference in which six experts on South Asia discussed the impact of increasing religious militancy—Hindu as well as Islamic—on geopolitical stability and religious freedom in the subcontinent. Co-sponsoring the conference was INFEMIT, a network of Third World theologians and activists led by Dr. Vinay Samuel. |
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| Does God Belong on the Stump? |
| Publication Date: December 2, 2000 |
| Posted: Saturday, December 2, 2000 |
| A seminar held at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in late September featured three well-known commentators on American religion and public life. The three made informal remarks and then took part in a general discussion. Moderator Michael Cromartie is vice president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center. |
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| How Should We Talk? Religion and Public Discourse |
| Publication Date: July 15, 2000 |
| Posted: Saturday, July 15, 2000 |
| In June 2000 a group of journalists gathered at the Black Point Inn in Prouts Neck, Maine, at the invitation of the Ethics and Public Policy Center for a two-day seminar. Its purpose was to enhance journalistic understanding of current Evangelical, Catholic, and Jewish cultural and religious issues. |
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| Conflict on Campus |
| Publication Date: June 13, 2000 |
| Posted: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 |
| At a seminar in Washington on June 13, 2000, the Ethics and Public Policy Center joined with the Civitas Program in Faith and Public Affairs of the Center for Public Justice to sponsor a free-wheeling discussion of recent campus conflicts over whether Christian student groups can bar gay and lesbian students from positions of leadership. |
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| How the Faithful Voted |
| Publication Date: January 30, 2000 |
| Posted: Sunday, January 30, 2000 |
| A seminar held at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in January, 2001, featured two well-known commentators on American religion and public life. They made informal remarks and then took part in a general discussion. Moderator Michael Cromartie is vice president of EPPC. |
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| Can the Jews Survive America? |
| Publication Date: January 11, 2000 |
| Posted: Tuesday, January 11, 2000 |
| In September 1999 a group of journalists gathered at the Black Point Inn in Prouts Neck, Maine, at the invitation of the Ethics and Public Policy Center for a two-day seminar. |
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| Evolution and the Curriculum |
| Publication Date: September 15, 1999 |
| Posted: Wednesday, September 15, 1999 |
| The EPPC seminar from which this "Conversation" is drawn took place in September 1999, shortly after the decision of the Kansas State Board of Education that a knowledge of evolution would no longer be required on the statewide tests given to students; local schools could teach or not teach evolution, as they chose. |
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| Current Catholic Thought on the Death Penalty |
| Publication Date: May 24, 1999 |
| Posted: Monday, May 24, 1999 |
| At an informal Center seminar on May 12, 1999, two Catholics and one Protestant spoke briefly to set the framework for a discussion of capital punishment. |
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| From Plato to NATO |
| Publication Date: February 10, 1999 |
| Posted: Wednesday, February 10, 1999 |
| On February 8, 1999, David Gress, the author of From Plato to NATO: The Idea of the West and Its Opponents, spoke at an informal EPPC seminar. |
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