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TRANSCRIPT: Is There A Culture War?
By Michael Cromartie
Posted: Tuesday, July 18, 2006
EPPC Vice President Michael Cromartie moderated this discussion in May 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 James Davison Hunter, author of the widely acclaimed Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America, and long-time critic Alan Wolfe, author of One Nation, After All, discussed whether America really is polarized by a "culture war" over key moral issues like abortion and homosexuality.
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TRANSCRIPT: Myths of the Modern Mega-Church
By Michael Cromartie
Posted: Sunday, February 12, 2006
In May 2005, EPPC Vice-President Michael Cromartie moderated a series of discussions at the Pew Forum's biannual Faith Angle conference on religion, politics and public life. In this particular discussion led by Mr. Cromartie, conference speaker Rick Warren, pastor of the largest church in America and author of The Purpose Driven Life, addressed misconceptions many Americans have about mega-churches. He also discussed current trends in the evangelical movement, and some of his views on hot-button political and cultural issues.
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The Evangelical Conservatism of George W. Bush
Or, How the Republicans Became Red
By Wilfred M. McClay
Posted: Wednesday, February 23, 2005
"What I want to look at is, specifically, how the administration of George W. Bush seems to have marked a sea change in the evolution of Republican politics, in conservatism, in the present and future alignment of our political parties and ideologies, and the role of religion in our public discourse and public action. In addition, however, I want to talk about the ways that, taking a longer-range historical view, what looks like a sea change may in fact merely be the process of this administration and the political party it leads rejoining itself, consciously or not, to certain longer traditions of American political and social reform. And I will also want to ask, in the end, whether these changes or reorientations are entirely a good thing, or whether there are aspects of them that should give pause to Americans in general, and to conservative Americans and evangelical Americans in particular."
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Religion and the Media
Faith Angle Conference -- Dec. 2007
 EPPC Vice President Michael Cromartie moderated a series of discussions in December at the biannual 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.
 Religion and Secularism: The American Experience -- EPPC Senior Fellow Wilfred McClay, a distinguished professor of intellectual history, speaks on the historical relationship between religion and secularism in America and argues for a distinction between two types of secularism. The Religion Factor in the 2008 Election -- John Green, author of The Faith Factor: How Religion Influences American Elections, analyzes recent surveys and suggests that the line dividing more observant and less observant voters - so pronounced in the 2004 election - may be blurring. Religious Literacy: What Every American Should Know -- Stephen Prothero, chair of the Department of Religion at Boston University and the author of Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know -- and Doesn't discusses the issue of religious illiteracy in the United States.
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Liberating the Limerick
God's plan made a hopeful beginning But man spoiled his chances by sinning We trust that the story Will end in God's glory But at present, the other side's winning -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
In his new book Liberating the Limerick, EPPC Senior Scholar (and founding President) Ernest W. Lefever collects, and organizes by theme, 230 limericks that "reflect facets of truth and virtue wrapped in the garments of irony and caricature." Click here to read more.
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