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EVENT TRANSCRIPT: The Paradox of Judaism and American Politics
By Michael Cromartie
Posted: Monday, April 12, 2010
Some of the nation's leading journalists gathered in South Beach, Miami in March 2010 for the biannual Faith Angle Conference on Religion, Politics, and Public Life. David Gelernter, Professor of Computer Science at Yale University and Rabbi David Saperstein, Director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, presented on the topic, "The Paradox of Judaism and American Politics."  [Read More]
EVENT TRANSCRIPT: To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World
By Michael Cromartie
Posted: Monday, April 5, 2010
Recently the Ethics and Public Policy Center held its Faith Angle Conference in Miami Beach, Florida. James Davison Hunter, LaBrosse-Levinson Distinguished Professor of Religion, Culture and Social Theory at the University of Virginia spoke on the topic: "To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World." Ross Douthat of The New York Times and Amy Sullivan of Time responded.  [Read More]
EVENT TRANSCRIPT: Have the Culture Wars Gone Global? Religion and Sexuality in the Global South
By Michael Cromartie
Posted: Friday, April 2, 2010
Some of the nation's leading journalists gathered in South Beach, Miami in March 2010 for the biannual Faith Angle Conference on Religion, Politics, and Public Life. Professor Philip Jenkins, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Humanities at Pennsylvania State University and Distinguished Senior Fellow at Baylor University's Institute for Studies of Religion, presented on the topic, "Have the Culture Wars Gone Global? Religion and Sexuality in the Global South."  [Read More]
TRANSCRIPT: Obama's Favorite Theologian?
A Short Course on Reinhold Niebuhr
By Michael Cromartie
Posted: Sunday, August 2, 2009
Ever since then-Sen. Barack Obama spoke of his admiration for Reinhold Niebuhr in a 2007 interview with New York Times columnist David Brooks, there has been speculation about the extent to which the 20th-century theologian has influenced Obama's views on faith, politics and social change.  [Read More]
TRANSCRIPT: Religion and Science
Conflict or Harmony?
By Michael Cromartie
Posted: Saturday, August 1, 2009
Francis S. Collins, the former director of the Human Genome Project, discussed why he believes religion and science are compatible and why the current conflict over evolution vs. faith, particularly in the evangelical community, is unnecessary.  [Read More]
TRANSCRIPT: The Political Obligations of Catholics
A Conversation With the Most Rev. Charles Chaput, Archbishop of Denver
By Michael Cromartie
Posted: Friday, July 31, 2009
In his recent book (2008), the Most Rev. Charles J. Chaput, archbishop of Denver, argues that Catholics should take an active, vocal and morally consistent role in public debates, particularly on issues such as abortion, the death penalty and other matters they consider central to social justice.  [Read More]
TRANSCRIPT: America and Islam After Bush
By Michael Cromartie
Posted: Sunday, March 1, 2009
Vali Nasr, author of the 2006 book, The Shia Revival, surveyed the geo-political landscape of today's Middle East 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 December 2008.  [Read More]
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]
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