Does God Belong on the Stump?
A Conversation with Stephen Carter, Charles Krauthammer, and Leo Ribuffo
Posted: Saturday, December 2, 2000
A seminar held at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in late September featured three well-known commentators on American religion and public life. The three made informal remarks and then took part in a general discussion. Moderator Michael Cromartie is vice president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center.  [Read More]

Can the Jews Survive America?
A Conversation with Jack Wertheimer and David Brooks
Posted: Wednesday, November 1, 2000
In September 1999 a group of journalists gathered at the Black Point Inn in Prouts Neck, Maine, at the invitation of the Ethics and Public Policy Center for a two-day seminar.  [Read More]

New Century, New Story-Line: Catholics in America
A Conversation with George Weigel and Kenneth L. Woodward
Posted: Monday, October 9, 2000
In September 1999 a group of journalists gathered at the Black Point Inn in Prouts Neck, Maine, at the invitation of the Ethics and Public Policy Center for a two-day seminar. Its purpose was to enhance journalistic understanding of current Protestant evangelical, Catholic, and Jewish cultural and religious issues.  [Read More]

Conflict on Campus
Religious Liberty versus Gay Rights?
Posted: Monday, August 7, 2000
At a seminar in Washington on June 13, 2000, the Ethics and Public Policy Center joined with the Civitas Program in Faith and Public Affairs of the Center for Public Justice to sponsor a free-wheeling discussion of recent campus conflicts over whether Christian student groups can bar gay and lesbian students from positions of leadership.  [Read More]

Evangelicalism and American Life
A Conversation with Nathan Hatch, Grant Wacker, and Hanna Rosin
Posted: Monday, July 3, 2000
In September 1999 a group of journalists gathered at the Black Point Inn in Prouts Neck, Maine, at the invitation of the Ethics and Public Policy Center for a two-day seminar.  [Read More]

Reform Judaism: A New Path?
A Conversation with Rabbis Jack Luxemburg, David Novak, and Joshua Haberman
Posted: Monday, November 22, 1999
At an Ethics and Public Policy Center seminar on June 25, 1999, the subject was the “Statement of Principles for Reform Judaism” adopted a month earlier in Pittsburgh by the Central Conference of American Rabbis.  [Read More]

Evolution and the Curriculum
A Conversation with Phillip Johnson and Gregg Easterbrook
Posted: Monday, September 27, 1999
The EPPC seminar from which this "Conversation" is drawn took place in September 1999, shortly after the decision of the Kansas State Board of Education that a knowledge of evolution would no longer be required on the statewide tests given to students; local schools could teach or not teach evolution, as they chose.  [Read More]

Current Catholic Thought on the Death Penalty
A Conversation with Joseph Bottum, Russell Hittinger, and Keith Pavlischek
Posted: Monday, May 24, 1999
At an informal Center seminar on May 12, 1999, two Catholics and one Protestant spoke briefly to set the framework for a discussion of capital punishment.  [Read More]

From Plato to NATO
A Conversation with David Gress
Posted: Monday, May 24, 1999
On February 8, 1999, David Gress, the author of From Plato to NATO: The Idea of the West and Its Opponents, spoke at an informal Center seminar.  [Read More]