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Faith, Reason, and the War Against Jihadism
A Call to Action
By George Weigel
Posted: Friday, November 9, 2007
More than half a decade after 9/11, safe passage through a moment of history fraught with both peril and possibility requires Americans across the political spectrum to see things as they are. In this incisive, engaging study of the present danger and what we must do to prevail against it, George Weigel, one of America's foremost public intellectuals, does precisely that: he sees, and describes, things as they are -- and as they might be.
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Liberating the Limerick
By Ernest W. Lefever
Posted: Wednesday, May 17, 2006
In his new book Liberating the Limerick, EPPC Senior Scholar (and founding President) Ernest Lefever collects, and organizes by theme, 230 limericks that "reflect facets of truth and virtue wrapped in the garments of irony and caricature."
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My Fundamentalist Education
A Memoir of a Divine Girlhood
By Christine Rosen
Posted: Monday, December 12, 2005
"I grew up in a fundamentalist house and school," writes EPPC Fellow Christine Rosen in her new book. "It wasn't perfect, but it was what I knew; and now, years later, happily married to a non-fundamentalist and professionally something of a rationalist, I look back on them with the fondness most people have for their first school teachers, the band director, principal, classmates and their parents -- Christian fundamentalists, all."
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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.
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Faith Angle Conference -- May 2008
EPPC Vice President Michael Cromartie moderated a series of discussions in May at the semi-annual 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.
 American Evangelicalism: New Leaders, New Faces, New Issues -- D. Michael Lindsay, author of Faith in the Halls of Power: How Evangelicals Joined the American Elite, describes eight fallacies or misconceptions he held as he began his book.
Religious Voters in the 2008 Election: What It Means for Democrats, Republicans -- William A. Galston, a senior fellow at The Brookings Institution and an assistant for domestic policy in the Clinton administration, discusses the importance of the Catholic vote in 2008. How Our Brains are Wired for Belief -- What does brain science add to age-old debates about the existence of God and the value of religion? Can political parties and religious groups use scientific insights to influence the beliefs of others? Dr. Andrew Newberg and Mr. David Brooks raise these questions and share their insights with journalists.
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