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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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Understanding American Evangelicals
A Conversation with Mark Noll and Jay Tolson
Posted: Wednesday, June 2, 2004
In December 2003, 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-day seminar called "Toward an Understanding of Religion and American Public Life." The session from which this "Conversation" is drawn featured historian Mark Noll, well known for his numerous books on evangelicalism, with a response by journalist Jay Tolson. What follows is an edited version of their remarks and of the ensuing general discussion as moderated by Michael Cromartie, vice president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center. These seminars for journalists are underwritten by a generous grant from the Pew Charitable Trusts, given with the overall aim of improving journalistic coverage of religion.
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Why Genesis? Why Now?
A Conversation with Leon R. Kass
Posted: Thursday, February 19, 2004
In June 2003, bioethicist and scholar Leon Kass discussed his new book, The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis (Free Press, 2003). After Dr. Kass’s remarks, three respondents offered assessments of the book: Catholic author and theologian George Weigel, evangelical Protestant scholar Alan Jacobs, and Jewish scholar and editor Leon Wieseltier. Center president Hillel Fradkin moderated the lively discussion that followed.
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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 the Media |
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Faith Angle Conference -- May 2008
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.
 American Evangelicalism: New Leaders, New Faces, New Issues -- D. Michael Lindsay, author of Faith in the Halls of Power: How Evangelicals Joined the American Elite, describes eight fallacies or misconceptions he held as he began his book.
Religious Voters in the 2008 Election: What It Means for Democrats, Republicans -- William A. Galston, a senior fellow at The Brookings Institution and an assistant for domestic policy in the Clinton administration, discusses the importance of the Catholic vote in 2008. How Our Brains are Wired for Belief -- What does brain science add to age-old debates about the existence of God and the value of religion? Can political parties and religious groups use scientific insights to influence the beliefs of others? Dr. Andrew Newberg and Mr. David Brooks raise these questions and share their insights with journalists.
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