Understanding American Evangelicals
A Conversation with Mark Noll and Jay Tolson
Posted: Wednesday, June 2, 2004
In December 2003, twenty-five print and broadcast journalists gathered at the Pier House in Key West, Florida, at the invitation of the Ethics and Public Policy Center for a two-day seminar called "Toward an Understanding of Religion and American Public Life." The session from which this "Conversation" is drawn featured historian Mark Noll, well known for his numerous books on evangelicalism, with a response by journalist Jay Tolson. What follows is an edited version of their remarks and of the ensuing general discussion as moderated by Michael Cromartie, vice president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center. These seminars for journalists are underwritten by a generous grant from the Pew Charitable Trusts, given with the overall aim of improving journalistic coverage of religion.  [Read More]

Muslims in Hindu Nationalist India
A Conversation with Asghar Ali Engineer and Paul R. Brass
By Timothy Samuel Shah
Posted: Friday, April 30, 2004
In January, EPPC brought together two experts on religious conflict in South Asia to discuss the possible impact of increasing religious militancy -- both Hindu and Muslim -- on the Indian democratic state. The remarks of those analysts, Indian scholar/activist Asghar Ali Engineer and American scholar Paul R. Brass, are featured in this Center Conversation.  [Read More]

Why Genesis? Why Now?
A Conversation with Leon R. Kass
Posted: Thursday, February 19, 2004
In June 2003, bioethicist and scholar Leon Kass discussed his new book, The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis (Free Press, 2003). After Dr. Kass’s remarks, three respondents offered assessments of the book: Catholic author and theologian George Weigel, evangelical Protestant scholar Alan Jacobs, and Jewish scholar and editor Leon Wieseltier. Center president Hillel Fradkin moderated the lively discussion that followed.  [Read More]

Evangelicals, Islam, and Humanitarian Aid
A Conversation with Lamin Sanneh
Posted: Monday, December 15, 2003
In May 2003, some thirty representatives of humanitarian organizations, journalists, and policymakers met at the Ethics and Public Policy Center to ponder the role of evangelical relief organizations in post-war Iraq. The remarks of the main speaker -- Lamin Sanneh of Yale University -- are followed here by an edited version of the ensuing discussion.  [Read More]

Evangelicals and Israel
A Conversation with Gerald R. McDermott
Posted: Thursday, November 20, 2003
Gerald McDermott, professor of religion at Roanoke College, delivered a lecture at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in late 2002 entitled "The Tension Between Land and Peace: Evangelical Christians, Israel, and the Jews." This Center Conversation consists of the text of his lecture, and the transcript of the lively conversation that followed.  [Read More]

Islam and the Prospects for Democracy
Khaled Abou El Fadl, Sohail Hashmi, Qamar-ul Huda, and Zainab Al-Suwaij
Edited by Carol Griffith
Posted: Monday, October 20, 2003
As part of its Islam and American Democracy project, the Ethics and Public Policy Center holds seminars with leading Muslim scholars and leaders. This "Center Conversation" draws upon four of these seminars from 2002 and 2003.  [Read More]

The Rise of Global Christianity
A Conversation with Philip Jenkins and David Brooks
Posted: Thursday, August 21, 2003
In December 2002, two dozen journalists gathered at the Pier House in Key West, Florida, at the invitation of the Ethics and Public Policy Center for a two-day seminar. Its purpose was to enhance journalistic understanding of current religious and cultural issues.  [Read More]

Political Islam
A Conversation with Gilles Kepel and Jeffrey Goldberg
Posted: Monday, July 28, 2003
In December 2002, twenty-five print and broadcast journalists gathered at the Pier House in Key West, Florida, at the invitation of the Ethics and Public Policy Center for a two dayseminar called "Toward an Understanding of Religion and International Conflict." The session from which this "Conversation" is drawn featured Gilles Kepel, author of Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam, with a response by New Yorker writer Jeffrey Goldberg.  [Read More]

Just War and Jihad: Two Views of War
A Conversation with James Turner Johnson and Christopher Hitchens
Posted: Friday, June 27, 2003
In December 2002, two dozen journalists gathered at the Pier House in Key West, Florida, at the invitation of the Ethics and Public Policy' Center for a two-day seminar. Its purpose was to enhance journalistic understanding of current religious and cultural issues.  [Read More]

War in Iraq: Is it Just?
Christopher Hitchens, William Galston, and George Weigel
Posted: Friday, May 30, 2003
In a seminar on February 6, 2003, three prominent commentators offered differing views on whether the U.S. war in Iraq-then on the near horizon-could be pronounced a "just war." Journalist Christopher Hitchens says the United States has a moral debt as well as a political responsibility to intervene. Political philosopher William Galston takes issue with the notion of "preventive" war. And theologian George Weigel looks at three just war criteria that he says have framed the public debate in the United States. Michael Cromartie is vice president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center.   [Read More]