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| February 2008 |
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Religious Commitment in a Conversion-prone Culture
By Colleen Carroll Campbell
Posted: Friday, February 29, 2008
Given the new Pew Forum poll that found nearly half of Americans have switched religious affiliations, it is worth pondering whether our contemporary conversions are driven by a sincere search for truth, or rather a self-centered quest for spiritual novelty or emotional high.
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Divided Towards Iran
The Gathering Storm, February 28, 2008
By Rick Santorum
Posted: Thursday, February 28, 2008
The U.N. Security Council is set to approve new sanctions against Iran for refusing to suspend uranium enrichment. However, delays seem inevitable as non-permanent members (Libya, Indonesia, South Africa, and Vietnam) object to the resolution. The sanctions as currently drafted would expand travel restrictions, freeze the assets of Iranian officials linked to the nuclear effort, ban trade with Iran in goods that have both civilian and military uses, and impose a travel ban on those individuals most involved in proliferation activity.
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Obama: A Harsh Ideologue Hidden by a Feel-Good Image
By Rick Santorum
Posted: Thursday, February 28, 2008
American voters will choose between two candidates this election year. One inspires hope for a brighter, better tomorrow. The other candidate is one of the Senate's fiercest partisans. Which of these two candidates should be our next president? The choice is clear, right? Wrong, because they're both the same man - Barack Obama.
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Farewell WFB
By Peter Wehner
Posted: Thursday, February 28, 2008
There will be many people who knew Bill Buckley far better than I who will attest to his personal kindness and grace over the years. And many people will pour forth with testimonies about Mr. Buckley's monumental role in the history of modern conservatism. I simply want to recount his role in my own pilgrimage of faith.
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Liebe Europäer
By George Weigel
Posted: Thursday, February 28, 2008
In a recent article in Die Zeit, former West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt confessed that he wants to "love America again." He listed 10 conditions for a lovers' reconciliation, each reflective of the political, environmental, economic, secularist and multicultural shibboleths of the contemporary European left. Many Americans, however, think that the real issue is this: How can we respect Europe again?
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Iranian Moves in Latin America
The Gathering Storm, February 26, 2008
By Rick Santorum
Posted: Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Iran's industry and mining minister Ali-Akbar Mehrabian declared that more than thirty industrial projects will be inaugurated between Iran and Venezuela in 2008. Plans have been in the making since September 2007, when Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad met with Morales to sign several trade and cooperation agreements, including Iran's intent to open a Spanish language satellite television channel and invest $1 billion in Bolivia's oil and gas industry...
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Is That Your Final Question?
By Christine Rosen
Posted: Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama debated for possibly the last time in Ohio on Tuesday evening. It was the 20th debate. Is there anything left to ask? The New York Times Opinion section asked five experts, including EPPC Fellow Christine Rosen to pose the questions that they feel have not been answered.
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Daddy's DNA
By Christine Rosen
Posted: Monday, February 25, 2008
For every burgeoning cultural crisis there is a product that offers to solve it: Enter Identigen, a company that is now selling an over-the-counter paternity test -- available in Rite-Aid and Meijer drugstores nationwide (as well as over the Internet). The box features a tasteful sketch of mother and child and promises test results "admissible in most courts of law." As Identigene's Web site promises, "Putting your mind at ease, or making sure that a potential parent acts responsibly, has never been more convenient, confidential, affordable, or accurate."
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Could Obama-mania Backlash Save Hillary?
By Colleen Carroll Campbell
Posted: Friday, February 22, 2008
Maybe Hillary is not so bad. As Sen. Barack Obama accrues delegates and Obama-mania reaches fever pitch, I've realized that there is something I fear more than President Hillary. It's Messiah Barack.
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Lourdes and the Modern World
By George Weigel
Posted: Friday, February 22, 2008
In mid-19th century Europe, Lourdes, a small town in the French Pyrenees, was about as backwater as backwater gets. Today, as for the past century and a half, Lourdes is one of the world's great pilgrimage sites, a place of decency, fellowship and spiritual healing where inexplicable physical cures have also taken place.
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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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