TRANSCRIPT: Religion and Race
A Historical and Contemporary Perspective
By Michael Cromartie
Posted: Sunday, March 1, 2009
Eddie S.Glaude Jr., author of In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America, discussed religion and race in America in a talk from the Pew Forum's semi-annual Faith Angle Conference on religion, politics and public life in Key West, Fla., in December 2008.  [Read More]

TRANSCRIPT: A Post-Election Look at Religious Voters in the 2008 Election
By Michael Cromartie
Posted: Sunday, March 1, 2009
John Green, a senior fellow in religion and American politics at the Pew Forum, discussed how a small change overall in voting behavior among religious groups had a big impact at the ballot box at the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion and Public Life's semi-annual Faith Angle Conference on religion, politics and public life in Key West, Fla., in December 2008.  [Read More]

TRANSCRIPT: A Blessing to One Another
John Paul II and the Jewish People
By George Weigel
Posted: Monday, September 15, 2008
On March 26, 2000, an eighty year old Polish priest, dressed in the traditional white cassock of the Bishop of Rome and leaning heavily on a cane, walking eighty-six slow and difficult steps to the Western Wall of Herod's Temple. There, after a moment of silent reflection, he did something ghat millions of believers in the God of Abraham had done before him: he left a prayer.  [Read More]

TRANSCRIPT: Ethical Questions in the Reform of Health and Medical Care
By James C. Capretta
Posted: Monday, August 4, 2008
EPPC Fellow James C. Capretta presented at a June 26, 2008 session of the President's Council on Bioethics in Chicago, Illinois.  The Council held the session to explore the relative merits of alternative health care reform plans.  Mr. Capretta presented the reasons policymakers should implement a reform program based on consumer choice and market competition.  [Read More]

TRANSCRIPT: American Evangelicalism
New Leaders, New Faces, New Issues
By Michael Cromartie
Posted: Sunday, June 1, 2008
D. Michael Lindsay, author of Faith in the Halls of Power: How Evangelicals Joined the American Elite, described eight fallacies or misconceptions he held as he began his book during this talk at the Pew Forum's semi-annual Faith Angle Conference on religion, politics and public life held in Key West, Florida, in May 2008.  [Read More]

TRANSCRIPT: Religious Voters in the 2008 Election
What It Means for Democrats, Republicans
By Michael Cromartie
Posted: Sunday, June 1, 2008
William A. Galston, a senior fellow at The Brookings Institution and an assistant for domestic policy in the Clinton administration, discussed the importance of the Catholic vote in 2008 during the Pew Forum's semi-annual Faith Angle Conference on religion, politics and public life in Key West, Fla., in May 2008.  [Read More]

TRANSCRIPT: How Our Brains are Wired for Belief
By Michael Cromartie
Posted: Sunday, June 1, 2008
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 raised these questions and shared their insights with the journalists gathered in Key West, Florida during the Pew Forum's semi-annual Faith Angle Conference on religion, politics and public life in May, 2008.  [Read More]

TRANSCRIPT: Religion and Secularism
The American Experience
By Michael Cromartie
Posted: Wednesday, January 23, 2008
EPPC Senior Fellow Wilfred McClay spoke on the historical relationship between religion and secularism in America at the Pew Forum's biannual Faith Angle Conference on religion, politics and public life in Key West, Florida, in December, 2007.  [Read More]

TRANSCRIPT: The Religion Factor in the 2008 Election
By Michael Cromartie
Posted: Wednesday, January 23, 2008
John Green, author of The Faith Factor: How Religion Influences American Elections, analyzed recent surveys and suggested that the line dividing more observant and less observant voters - so pronounced in the 2004 election - may be blurring during this talk at the Pew Forum's biannual Faith Angle Conference on religion, politics and public life held in Key West, Florida, in December, 2007.  [Read More]

TRANSCRIPT: Religious Literacy
What Every American Should Know
By Michael Cromartie
Posted: Wednesday, January 23, 2008
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 discussed the issue of religious illiteracy in the United States at the Pew Forum's biannual Faith Angle Conference on religion, politics and public life in Key West, Florida, in December, 2007.  [Read More]