EVENT TRANSCRIPT: Science v. Religion: What Scientists Really Think

Posted: Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Some of the nation's leading journalists gathered in South Beach, Miami in November 2010 for the semi-annual Faith Angle Forum on Religion, Politics, and Public Life. Dr. Elaine Howard Ecklund, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Rice University, presented on the topic, "Science v. Religion: What Scientists Really Think." Barbara Bradley Hagerty, Religion Correspondent for NPR, responded.  [Full Story]

EVENT TRANSCRIPT: Religious Voters and the 2010 Election

Posted: Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Some of the nation's leading journalists gathered in South Beach, Miami in November 2010 for the semi-annual Faith Angle Forum on Religion, Politics, and Public Life. William Galston, Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution, and E.J. Dionne, Columnist for The Washington Post, presented on the topic, "Religious Voters and the 2010 Election." Michael Barone, Senior Political Analyst for the Washington Examiner, responded.  [Full Story]

EVENT TRANSCRIPT: Sex Abuse, the Catholic Church, and the Media

Posted: Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Some of the nation's leading journalists gathered in South Beach, Miami in November 2010 for the semi-annual Faith Angle Forum on Religion, Politics, and Public Life. George Weigel, Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, presented on the topic, "Sex Abuse, the Catholic Church, and the Media." John L. Allen, Jr., Senior Correspondent for the National Catholic Reporter, responded.  [Full Story]

The Dead Are Not Raised by Politics
An Interview with Michael Cromartie
Posted: Tuesday, August 17, 2010
EPPC Vice President Michael Cromartie recently spoke with Timothy Dalrymple of Patheos, a website designed to serve as a resource for those looking to learn more about different belief systems, as well as participate in productive, moderated discussions on some of today's most talked about and debated topics, on the topic of the future of evanglicalism.  [Full Story]

EVENT TRANSCRIPT: The Paradox of Judaism and American Politics

Posted: Monday, April 12, 2010
Some of the nation's leading journalists gathered in South Beach, Miami in March 2010 for the semi-annual 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."  [Full Story]

EVENT TRANSCRIPT: To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World

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.  [Full Story]

EVENT TRANSCRIPT: Have the Culture Wars Gone Global? Religion and Sexuality in the Global South

Posted: Friday, April 2, 2010
Some of the nation's leading journalists gathered in South Beach, Miami in March 2010 for the semi-annual 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."  [Full Story]

EVENT TRANSCRIPT: Obama's Favorite Theologian?
A Short Course on Reinhold Niebuhr
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.  [Full Story]

EVENT TRANSCRIPT: Religion and Science
Conflict or Harmony?
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.  [Full Story]

EVENT TRANSCRIPT: The Political Obligations of Catholics
A Conversation With the Most Rev. Charles Chaput, Archbishop of Denver
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.  [Full Story]