God's Choice
Pope Benedict XVI and the Future of the Catholic Church
By George Weigel
Posted: Thursday, September 15, 2005
After more than twenty-six years of John Paul II's guidance, the Catholic Church is entering a new age. In his new book, God's Choice, George Weigel reflects on John Paul II's greatness, paints an intimate portrait of the new Pope, and boldly assesses the Church's current condition. God's Choice is an invaluable book for anyone seeking to understand the Catholic future and the larger human future the Church will help to shape.  [Read More]

Religion and Politics in America
A Conversation
Edited by Michael Cromartie
Posted: Monday, May 2, 2005
The current national discourse has brought faith and its relationship to public policy to the forefront of our daily news. Since 1999, the Ethics and Public Center, through the generosity of the Pew Charitable Trusts, has hosted six conferences for national journalists to help raise the level of their reporting by increasing their understanding of religion, religious communities, and the religious convictions that inform the political activity of devout believers. This book contains the presentations and conversations that grew out of those conferences.  [Read More]

Religion, Culture, and International Conflict
A Conversation
Edited by Michael Cromartie
Posted: Monday, May 2, 2005
The current national discourse has brought faith and its relationship to public policy to the forefront of our daily news. Since 1999, the Ethics and Public Policy Center, through the generosity of the Pew Charitable Trusts, has hosted six conferences for national journalists to help raise the level of their reporting by increasing their understanding of religion, religious communities, and the religious convictions that inform the political activity of devout believers. This book contains the presentations and conversations that grew out of those conferences.  [Read More]

The Cube and the Cathedral
Europe, America and Politics Without God
By George Weigel
Posted: Friday, March 11, 2005
Why do Europeans and Americans see the world so differently? Why do Europeans and Americans have such different understandings of democracy and its discontents in the twenty-first century? Contrasting the civilization that produced the starkly modernist "cube" of the Great Arch of La Defense in Paris with the civilization that produced the "cathedral" of Notre-Dame, George Weigel argues that Europe's embrace of a narrow secularism has led to a crisis of morale that is eroding Europe's soul and threatening its future-with dire lessons for the rest of the democratic world.   [Read More]

God on the Quad
How Religious Colleges and the Missionary Generation Are Changing America
By Naomi Schaefer Riley
Posted: Wednesday, December 15, 2004
Religious colleges and universities in America are growing at a breakneck pace. In this startling new book, EPPC adjunct fellow Naomi Schaefer Riley explores these schools.  [Read More]

The New Faithful
Why Young Adults Are Embracing Christian Orthodoxy
By Colleen Carroll Campbell
Posted: Saturday, May 1, 2004
Now available in paperback! Saving sex for marriage. Attending the Latin Mass. Witnessing to others about Christ. Baby boomers largely rejected these trappings of traditional Christianity -- so why are their children embracing them with such fervor? Author Colleen Carroll taps into the restless hearts of America's Gen-X believers, revealing their deep attraction to tradition, longing for truth, and determination to change the world. As Carroll writes, "The grassroots movement they have started bears watching because it has thrived in the most unlikely places, captured the hearts of the most unlikely people, and aims to effect the most unlikely of outcomes: a revitalization of American Christianity and culture."  [Read More]

Letters to a Young Catholic
By George Weigel
Posted: Monday, March 1, 2004
In these letters, George Weigel conveys the power of a faith that is at once personal and universal, timely and eternal. His book will inspire not only the young generation of Catholics whose World Youth Day celebrations have launched an era of renewal for the Church, but also the faithful, the doubtful, and the searchers of every age.  [Read More]

Preaching Eugenics
Religious Leaders and the American Eugenics Movement
By Christine Rosen
Posted: Monday, March 1, 2004
The story of how religious leaders confronted one of the era's newest "sciences," eugenics, sheds important new light on a time much like our own, when religion and science are engaged in critical and sometimes bitter dialogue.  [Read More]

A Public Faith
Evangelicals and Civic Engagement
By Michael Cromartie
Posted: Wednesday, July 16, 2003
The essays in this volume look at the role of evangelicals in American civic life. The contributors examine evangelical Christians' beliefs and activities on topics ranging from bioethics to race relations and welfare reform to international human rights. Taken together, the essays show that the social commitment of evangelicals extends considerably beyond family-related issues, and that their activity in the public sphere makes an essential contribution to the public good.  [Read More]

Jews and the American Public Square
Debating Religion and Republic
Edited by Alan Mittleman
Posted: Friday, November 1, 2002
Jews and the American Public Square is a study of how Jews have grappled with the presence of religion, both their own and that of others, in American public life. It surveys historical Jewish approaches to church-state relations and analyzes Jewish responses to the religion clauses of the First Amendment. The book also explores how the contemporary sociological and political characteristics of American Jews bear on their understanding of the public dimensions of American religion.   [Read More]