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Happy Birthday
The Gathering Storm, May 8, 2008
By Rick Santorum
Posted: Thursday, May 8, 2008
It should be a joyful time for Israel this week, as the country prepares to celebrate its 60th anniversary . The air hangs heavy, however, as the reality of a nuclear Iran in the region grows closer every day. Appearing before journalists earlier this week, Israeli President Shimon Peres, one of the last members of Israel's founding generation, issued birthday wishes as well as concerns about the future of the nation.
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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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